SOCI 255 - Juvenile Delinquency

(3 credits) Cross Listed with CRJU 255
Prerequisite: SOCI 102 or SOCI 103 or SOCI 104 or consent of instructor
See Addenda to the 2025/2026 Catalog  for changes to this course effective Spring 2026 

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)