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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A study of the history of changing conceptions of childhood, the family, and childhood socialization; the invention of adolescence and the various attributions to childhood and adolescence; and a survey of major developmental schemes of adolescence with an emphasis on characteristics of American adolescence as conducive to delinquency.
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3.00 Credits
The philosophy, theory, and history of juvenile delinquency, including its causes, preventions, and measurement from sociological perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the correctional field, including probation, imprisonment, parole, and community corrections. Specific concern will be with the evolution of these programs, their present structure, and current problems.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of institutional confinement or the punishment and rehabilitation of criminal offenders. Specific concerns will focus on the history of confinement, the philosophical, legal, and social justifications of incarceration, and the current problems and criticisms of correctional institutions.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of non-institutional corrections in the American administration of justice including relevant legal and philosophical issues surrounding those practices. Specific concerns include the use of probation and parole in relation to institutional confinement, the variety of contemporary programs, and their presence in society.
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3.00 Credits
A sociological analysis of women as criminal offenders, victims, and as workers in criminal justice fields. Examines how gender influences criminal law and the practices of criminal justice agencies. Covers historical perspectives on women and crime, the adequacy of contemporary criminological perspectives for explaining female criminality.
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3.00 Credits
The study of criminal abuse of trust and power in corporations and government, including corporate abuse of power against owners, employees, publics-in-contact, and the public-at-large, as well as official response to such crimes. Organized crime, computer crime, electronic crime, securities fraud, and relevant law enforcement strategies are analyzed and contrasted with street crime.
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3.00 Credits
The study of criminal behavior and its treatment. The development of criminal behavior and societal reaction in contemporary society are addressed in terms of major social theories of crime and its causation. The treatment and rehabilitation of the offender by probation, imprisonment, and parole are addressed in terms of philosophy and policy.
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3.00 Credits
The historical development of juvenile justice including the establishment of the juvenile court and juvenile corrections in America, including the philosophical, social, and legal justifications of juvenile justice, contrasts the processing of juveniles with that of adult offenders, and focuses on contemporary issues and problems in juvenile justice.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the interactions among social structures, societal conditions and social selves that promote obedience to authority as well of those that build communities of dissent and resistance.
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