COURSE
OUTLINE
1.
COURSE
NUMBER & TITLE: CJ5002 Juvenile Offender
2.
COURSE
DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to examine the agencies,
institutions, and personnel that work with juvenile offenders. Of special interest will be how the police,
courts, and correctional agencies interact and deal with juvenile offenders, as
well as review of the current issues and proposals being discussed at the
national level. Additionally, the course
will provide the Learner with a theoretical and historical background of
juvenile delinquency and crime issues.
The Learner will become aware of current day issues in dealing with
juvenile delinquency and crime by use of text, scholarly reviews and
preparation of a paper. Discussion of the juvenile criminal justice system, and
how it deals with youthful offenders will be provided in the text as well as
journal articles and paper.
3.
COURSE
LEARNING OUTCOMES: Learners will be expected to...
3.1.
Understand
the history of the Juvenile Justice System
3.2. Examine the major parts of the Juvenile Justice System and understand why it works as it does.
3.3.
Be
able to identify and verbalize the causes, classifications, and kinds of
delinquents.
3.4.
Examine
the Juvenile Court System
3.5.
Explain
alternatives to incarceration
4.
COURSE
LEARNING ASSESSMENT:
Learners are expected to complete all performance
requirements for the course and to demonstrate mastery of the course concepts
and course learning outcomes. This will require learners to use library
resources and to document research with citations, bibliographies, and
references as applicable in completing their coursework.
In addition to library research, mastery of course concepts
may require demonstration of critical thinking, and communication skills by a
combination of examinations, papers, oral presentations, self-assessments, and
written assignments.
5.
PRIMARY
TEXT:
Siegel, Larry J. and Joseph J. Senna
(2001). Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law (7th
ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. ISBN: 0-534-55728-7.
6.
REFERENCES
& READINGS:
Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention (1999). Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 1999 National
Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Whitehead, John T. and Steven Pl Lab (2001). Juvenile Justice: An Introduction (3rd ed.). Cincinnati, OH: Anderson Publishing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Drowns, Robert W. and Karen M. Hess
(2000). Juvenile Justice (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth
Thomson Learning. ISBN: 0-534-52174-6.
Kratcoski, Lucille Dunn and Peter C.
Krutcoski (1996). Juvenile Delinquency (4th ed.). Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Sharp, Paul M. and Barry W. Hancock
(1998). Juvenile Delinquency: Historical, Theoretical and Societal Reactions
to Youth (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Trojanowicz, Robert C. and Merry
Morash (2001). Juvenile Delinquency: Concepts and Control (6th
ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
COURSE NUMBER/TITLE: CJ5002
Juvenile Offender
FACULTY MENTOR: Dr.
Michael A. S. Guth
Please
contact me through the NCU Message System.
PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS/COURSE
GRADE:
Your grade for this course will be based upon mastery of course concepts
as demonstrated by successfully completing the term assignment and final
project. Your work will be evaluated as
follows:
Mini Papers 24
@ 10 points each = 80% of your grade
Research Paper 1 @ 60 points = 20% of your grade
TERM ASSIGNMENT:
Mini
Papers:
Submit a short essay (at least one page) on each chapter in the text,
which analyzes one or more essential (and interesting to you) concepts of the
chapter. Use one or more Review
Questions as a starting point if you like.
Do not merely repeat what the author has stated, but analyze and
evaluate his data and conclusions. Feel
free to disagree if you have some rational basis for such disagreement.
Research
Paper:
The final project for this course requires you to develop and submit a
term paper on an organized crime topic of interest that has been covered in the
course. You should discuss your chosen
topic with your faculty mentor before you begin your paper to ensure it will be
acceptable. You will be expected to use
and document your use of library reference material as necessary to adequately
complete your paper. The recommended length of the paper is from ten to fifteen
pages (typed, double-spaced).
Course Participation:
Learners are expected to be involved in a minimum of one scheduled instructional activity per week. To meet this expectation, learners must make contact with their faculty mentor on a weekly basis through one of the following methods:
·
Posting
of an assignment (e.g., a paper, project, etc.) in the Course Work area of the
Learner’s web site.
·
Posting
of an assignment to share with the faculty mentor and other Learners in the
course web site (e.g., a review of a book or article, a proposal for a research
study, a presentation in the form of a PowerPoint presentation file, reporting
on participation in a research study, etc).
·
Participation
in a threaded discussion in the course web site (e.g., commenting on a
discussion question posted by the faculty mentor, providing feedback to another
Learner, etc.).
·
Viewing
instructional materials (e.g., a PowerPoint presentation prepared by the
faculty mentor, a streaming audio or video presentation, etc.).
Learners must use the NCU messaging system on the course web site to contact faculty mentors. Learners who fail to make contact within the time period of one month may be withdrawn from the course by NCU.
Assignment Submissions:
When you
"create" new assignments, use headers and footers to indicate your
name, course, and assignment number. Name the file using this format: DoeJCJ5002-1. The 1 stands for the
assignment number. Save the file in RTF
(Rich Text Format). Open the Learner
Area; click on CJ5002. Find the Course
Work area. Read the Help file by
clicking on the ?. When ready, click on
the + and select your assignment file by browsing. Your file will be uploaded to the server. Your mentor will receive a message that
course work has arrived. When the
mentor grades your work, the mentor will upload the graded assignment and you
will receive a message that course work has arrived. You may then view your graded assignment in the Course Work area. If you have questions, please contact the
Learners Affairs at ext. 8042 or learnersaffairs@ncu.edu.
Bulk assignments are not acceptable. Assignment Cover Sheet http://learners.ncu.edu/common_documents.asp.
Academic Integrity: All work submitted in each course
must be the Learner’s own. This
includes all assignments, exams, papers, and other projects required by the
faculty mentor. The submission of
another person’s work represented as that of the Learner’s without properly
citing the source of the work will be considered plagiarism and will result in
an unsatisfactory grade for the work submitted or for the entire course, and
may result in academic dismissal. To avoid plagiarism, do not “copy and paste”
into any assignments without using quotations marks and citing in APA format
the source of the material. Your work may be
submitted to TurnItIn.com for originality evaluation.
The Pre-Course survey provides important feed back for course improvement. Each Learner’s comments and evaluations give input to course and syllabus improvement. Please be sure to complete the Pre-course survey on your Course Page found by clicking the Course Code.
RECOMMENDED
SCHEDULE FOR COURSE COMPLETION:
Weeks 1- 6 Read
Chapters 1-9 of text. Prepare and
submit required mini papers for each of the 9 chapters.
Chapter 1 Mini-Papers
- Should the juvenile justice
system adopt a helping/treatment philosophy or a get-tough philosophy for
handling today’s juvenile delinquent?
- Describe the philosophy of
parens patriae and its impact on the American juvenile justice system.
Chapter 2 Mini-Paper
- How accurate are self-reports? Is there some truth to the argument that self-reports fail
to measure offenses committed by serious chronic offenders? How can self reports better measure
those types of offenders?
Chapter 3 Mini-Paper
- Differentiate between choice
theories and trait theories? How
are they alike and how do they differ?
- What do classical criminology
and deterrence theory have in common?
Is it possible to deter people from committing crime?
Chapter 4 Mini-Paper
- Compare and contrast the three
branches of social structure theory
Chapter 5 Mini-Papers
- List the basic principles of
differential association and describe the process of differential
association.
- Describe the elements of Travis
Hirschi’s theory of social control
Chapter 6 Mini-Paper
- What is labeling theory and how
does it explain delinquency? Is
labeling theory invalid because it does not explain the onset of the
initial delinquent act?
Chapter 7 Mini-Paper
- What is the masculinity
hypothesis and how would you go about proving or disproving the
hypothesis?
Chapter 8 Mini-Papers
- What is the child protection
system? What is its overall
philosophy?
- What are the important legal
issues concerning in-court and out-of-court statements in child sexual
abuse cases?
Chapter 9 Mini-Paper
- Why are gangs such an important
topic of study in delinquency?
Give background and examples.
Week 7 Submit
research paper topic for approval.
Weeks 8 - 13 Read
chapters 10 – 17 of the text. Prepare
and submit a mini paper(s) for each of the eight chapters.
Chapter 10 Mini-Paper
- Give the varied explanations
for the relationship between school failure and delinquency.
Chapter 11 Mini-Papers
- Compare
and contrast the various drug control strategies in use today and evaluate
their effectiveness.
- Compare and contrast the adult
and juvenile justice systems.
Chapter 12 Mini-Paper
- What is the jurisdiction of a
juvenile court and how is that jurisdiction established?
- Compare and contrast the adult
and juvenile justice systems.
Chapter 13 Mini- Paper
- What is community policing and
what affect will it have on juvenile justice?
Chapter 14 Mini-Paper
- Describe the intake process in
terms of procedures, rights granted to children and actors in the process
Chapter 15 Mini-Paper
- What is the formal adjudication
process and how does it work
Chapter 16 Mini-Paper(s)
- What does the term community
treatment refer to? What are some
specific examples of community treatment programs? What is the most commonly used
community treatment program?
- What is the current philosophy
of juvenile probation
Chapter 17 Mini-Paper
- Briefly describe the historical
development of juvenile corrections in this country.
Weeks 14
- 16 Prepare
and submit research paper.
You are
encouraged to complete this course as soon as possible; however, the course
must be completed by the end of the course session as stated in the Course
Registration Information Form.
The Post-Course survey provides important feed back for course
improvement. Each Learner’s comments
and evaluations give input to syllabus improvement and course design. Please be sure to complete the Post-course
survey found in Course Review.
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