CJ 3650 - At-Risk Youth3 unit(s)
(Formerly Youth Violence) Class explores criminological theories, risk, protective and criminogenic factors that explain at-risk youth’s substance abuse, sexual, violent, and general offending behaviors and tendencies, and the different ways in which risks and need assessments are used by juvenile justice professionals to correct at-risk behaviors.
Prerequisites: CJ 2250 and CJ 2280, or consent of instructor.
Course Learning Outcomes List
Students will:
•Learn about thoughts and attitudes that produce delinquent and criminal behaviors;
• Demonstrate basic understanding of the roles that protective, criminogenic, and risk factors play in the making of at-risk youth;
• Learn about how predictive domains like families, friends, and beliefs and attitudes inform at-risk behaviors;
• Develop the ability to recognize, assess, and classify at-risk behaviors and the characteristics of substance abuse, sexual violence, non-sexual violence, and general offending behaviors and tendencies;
• Learn the basic logic of risk and needs assessments and classifications;
• Explain the ways in which the juvenile justice systems use assessments, diagnoses, and classifications as correctional responses to at-risk youth behaviors and tendencies; and
• Critically analyze and critique the current juvenile justice systems’ responses to at- risk youth’s delinquency and criminality.
Schedule of Classes | University Bookstore
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