SOCI 255 - Juvenile Delinquency

(3 credits) Cross Listed with CRJU 255
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 or CRJU 101 or consent of instructor
 See Addenda to the 2024/2025 Catalog for changes to this course effective Spring 2025

Analysis of the nature and types of juvenile behavior that violates law; the mechanisms of defining such behavior as delinquent; and the relationship between delinquency and the social situations of juvenile offenders. Offered fall, spring, summer. (Formerly SOCI/CRJU 355)