CJ 240/Soc 210
Juvenile Delinquency
summer 2007
Instructor: Robert Sigler, 348-7781, 553-3897, rsigler@aol.com
Home
page: bama.ua.edu/~rsigler/home
Office hours: 11-12 Tuesday and Thursday
Text: Juvenile Delinquency,
9th Edition, Siegel and Senna,
Course Description 3 hours of credit
Extent and patterns of delinquency; its development in individuals and gangs, group therapy with juveniles; and juvenile courts, training schools, probation, and after care services.
Student Learning Outcomes
a. become familiar with the operations of the juvenile justice system
b. become familiar with the various theories which seek to explain delinquent behavior.
c. become familiar with the impact of various social institutions on the development of children
June 5 Introduction
and overview
6 Chapter
1-2 nature of delinquency
7 Chapter
3 Individual views
8 review
11 Chapter
4 sociological views
12 Chapter 5
developmental views
13 Chapter 6 gender
14 Chapter
7 and 8 family and peers
15 review
18 Exam
19 Chapter
9 Schools
20 Chapter 10 Drugs
21 Chapter
11 Prevention
22 Review
25 Chapter
12 History Paper
due
26 Chapter
13 Police
28 chapter
15 Corrections
29 Review
July 2 Chapter
16 international
3
Review
5 exam
Course Description
This course examines the extent and patterns of delinquency; its development in individuals and gangs; group therapy with delinquents; and juvenile courts, training schools, probation, and aftercare supervision.
Course Requirements
Midterm 35%
Final Exam 35%
Term Paper 30%
l00%
Term Paper
The term paper will be about 3,o00 words (l2-15 pages) in length. It will focus on any issue in the processing of juveniles by the juvenile justice system. The paper will have the following sections (headings: l) identification of the problem; 2) discussion of the alternative solutions proposed with a discussion of the merits of each; 3) choose or develop a preferred solution; 4) defend your solution. The instructor will discuss possible topics on request. No more than one half of the reference citations can come from non-refereed web sites. Due June 25.
A paper which does not
follow the format with proper headings in the text will earn a C even if it is
an excellent well written paper.
Class Format
This class is a lecture/discussion class. Specific chapters are assigned for each week. Some of the material is difficult. Students will ask questions about the reading assignments at the beginning of each class period. When the questions have been discussed, enrichment material will be presented by the instructor and discussed. You are required to read a newspaper and watch/listen one non-print media news program each day.
Grading Policy: Grades are not assigned on a "curve." It is possible for all students to earn an A. It is also possible for no one to earn an A. I have specific expectations for your performance so you are working to achieve my expectations not competing with each other.
Attendance Policy: There are no penalties for missing class. I will take roll each class period. You should be aware, however, that there is a direct relationship between attendance and grades. Those who attend regularly consistently make higher grades then those who don’t. This is probably caused by several factors including: some of the questions on the exams come directly from the lecture and professors generally talk about what is most important to them in lecture (you should not be too surprised to discover that these things also tend to appear on the exams). You also may earn up to three additional points on your final grade (you loose one point for each day of class that you miss).
Academic Misconduct Policy: All acts of dishonesty in any work constitute academic misconduct. This includes, but is not limited to, cheating, plagiarism, fabrication of information, misrepresentation, and abetting any of the above. The Academic Misconduct Disciplinary Policies will be followed in the event of academic misconduct, including the right to appeal any decision or action taken under this policy.
Challenged Students: To request disability accommodations, please contact Disabilities Services (348-4285). After initial arrangements are made with Disabilities Services, please contact Bob Sigler at rsigler@cj.as.ua.edu, 348-7781, or 553-3897.
Office hours: Office hours dedicated to students taking my courses this semester (you have priority over all others who might want my time) are posted on my office door. I will be pleased to talk with you any other time that I am in my office, by email, or by phone.
Criminal Justice 240, Sociology 210: Juvenile Justice
Final Exam
Spring 2004
1. __________________________________________________
refers to those individuals who do not achieve success in school at the level
of their expectations.
2. ______________________________________ mandates specific consequences or punishments for delinquent acts and not allowing anyone to avoid those consequences.
3. _______________________________________ are substances that lead to the use of more serious drugs
4. ______________________________________________ refers to injecting drugs directly into the veins.
5. ______________ ______________ refers to intervening in young people’s lives by means of non-justice program or policy design to prevent future occurrences of delinquent acts.
6. The best known and largest job
training program in the
________________________________________,
which was established in 1964 as a federal training program for disadvantaged,
unemployed youth
7. Developed by prominent Quakers
known as child savers, the _________________________________ protected criminal
youth by taking them off of the street and providing a family-like environment
8. The primary focus of
___________________________________________________ is to provide treatment to
youths accused of drug-related acts.
9.
_________________________________________ involves strategies that emphasizes
fear reduction, community organization and order maintenance as opposed to
crime fighting.
10. Police officers often
experience _________________________________________in their efforts to balance
the requirement to perform their law enforcement duties and their desire to aid
in the rehabilitation of youthful offenders.
11. The transfer of a juvenile offender from the jurisdiction of juvenile court to the adult criminal court is
referred to as the __________________________________________________________________.
12.
______________________________________ specifies a fixed term of detention that
must be served.
13. The
___________________________________________________ specifies the rules and
regulations mandating the specific behavior of a juvenile while on probation.
14.
_________________________________________ requires that an offender stay at
home for a specified period of time and subjects the offender to monitoring by
means of phone calls, home visits or by electronic device monitoring.
15. _______________
______________ are crimes that are punishable under international law.
16. ________________ ______________ are countries that are viewed by the UN as countries that are showing signs of improvement, economic growth and making the transition from low to high income status.
17. According to the video shown
in class, the youngest person to be sentenced to death in the
18. The best pure prevention program in the
19. When it comes to explaining crime, the difference between boys and girls is ________________
_____________________________________________________.
20. List two of the ways the Alabama State Legislature harmed the
juvenile correctional system in
______________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________
Name ___________________________
First Exam
Juvenile Justice
Spring 2004
1. ________________________________________________________________________ are young people who are extremely vulnerable to the negative consequences of school failure, substance abuse, and early sexuality.
2. The three juvenile waiver processes are _________________________________________,
_____________________________________, ____________________________________.
3. The ____________________________________________________________________ are incidents of crime and delinquency that go unreported by police.
4.
Each year the
Compiles information gathered by police departments on the number of criminal acts reported by citizens and the number of persons arrested.
5. _________________________________________________________ holds that decisions to violate the law are weighed against possible punishments, and to deter crime the pain of punishment must outweigh the benefit of illegal gain and led to graduated punishments.
6. In _______________________________________________________ theory, it is damage to the brain itself that causes antisocial behavior injurious to the individuals lifestyle and social adjustment.
7. According to William Julius Wilson, the __________________________________________ are those people who are left out of the economic mainstream and reduced to living in the most deteriorated inner-city areas.
8. ______________________________________________________ posits that delinquency is learned through close relationships with others and asserts that children are born “good” and learn to be “bad” from others.
9. ________________________________________________________ is the ability to control impulsive and often imprudent behaviors that offer immediate short-term gratification.
10. Gottfredson and Hirschi”s ______________________________________________________ is probably the most prominent latent trait view. It modifies and redefines some of the principles articulated in Hirschi’s social control theory by integrating the concepts of control with those of biosocial, psychological, routine activities, and rational choice theories.
11. ____________________________________________________________, according to Sigmund Freud, occurs when women being envious of the male sex organ unconsciously wish that they were men.
12. According to the book, the weight of the evidence is that males are more aggressive than
females; however, ___________________________________________________________
13. _________________________________________________________________ is the ability of parents to effectively raise their children in a non-coercive fashion.
14. Evidence also exists that _______________________________________________________ can promote delinquency. Nye found that mothers who threatened discipline but failed to carry it out were more likely to have delinquent children than those who were consistent in their discipline.
15. ____________________________________________________________ is committing criminal acts in groups.
16. _______________________________________________________ are stealing or assaulting someone to gain prestige in the neighborhood; often part of gang initiation rites.
17. If your value system is different than mine it does not mean that _______________________
____________________________________________.
18. Most of the rules and principles that govern our behavior are __________________________ _____________.
19. We must consider the principle of ___________________________________________ when deciding if a violent child should be held responsible for his or her behavior.
20. The largest group of children processed by the juvenile court are _______________________
____________________________________.