BC3 Academic Catalog: 2024-2025
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CRIM 125 - Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency 3 Credits: (3 lecture)
Course Description
This course examines the major professional, statutory and constitutional issues affecting the professional working within the juvenile justice system. A detailed examination of the way in which juveniles are processed through the court systems and the roles of the police, attorneys, child welfare, probation and the correctional officers are examined. The diagnostic assessment of delinquency, its implications for treatment, and treatment of delinquency are examined.
Text
Siegel, Larry J., Welsh, Brandon C. Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law. 13th ed. Independence, KY: Cengage, 2018.
Objectives
The student will be able to
A. Be able to identify and to explain the various methods of treatment and rehabilitation theories used on delinquents today.
B. Be able to explain the various theories and history of Juvenile Delinquency.
C. Be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of the Juvenile Court System and the Juvenile Court Act with emphasis on its application in Pennsylvania.
Content
A. History of Juvenile Delinquency
B. Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice System
C. Etiology of Delinquency
D. Social Case Studies
E. Roles of the Police, Probation Officer, Attorneys, Welfare Workers
F. Male vs. Female Delinquency
G. Juvenile Correctional Institutions
H. Juvenile Gangs
I. Court Decisions
J. Juvenile Rights
K. Treatment Theories for Juvenile Delinquents
L. Community Based Treatment
Student Evaluation
Grades will be based on periodic examinations, the final examination, and written assignments.Bibliography
Albanese, Jay S. Dealing with Juvenile Delinquency: An Investigation of Juvenile Justice. New York: University Press of America, 1985.
Bortner, M. S. Delinquency and Justice: An Age of Crisis. New York: McGraw Hill, 1988.
Boulay, Harvey. The Twilight Cities: Political Conflict, Development, and Decay in Five Communities. New York: Assoc. Faculty Press, 1983.
Castells, Manuel. The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of Urban Social Movements. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1983.
Champion, Dean J. The Juvenile Justice System: Delinquency, Processing, and the Law. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1992.
Faust, Frederic L. Juvenile Justice Philosophy: Readings, Cases, and Comments. 2nd ed. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Co., 1979.
Kramer, Rita. At a Tender Age: Violent Youth and Juvenile Justice. New York: Holt, 1988.
Roussopoulos, Dimitrios I., ed. The City and Radical Social Change. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982.
Schauss, Alexander B. Diet, Crime and Delinquency. Berkeley: Parker House, 1981.
Streib, Victor L. Death Penalty for Juveniles. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.
U. S. National Commission of the Causes and Prevention of Violence. To Establish Justice, to Insure Domestic Tranquility. The Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971.
U. S. National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. The History of Violence in America. A Report submitted to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. New York: Praeger, 1969.
Vito, Gennaro and Deborah G. Wilson. The American Juvenile Justice System. (Law and Criminal Justice Services: Vol. 5), Newbury Park, California: Sage, 1985.
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