CJ203 Juvenile Justice
Examines the juvenile justice system in the United States, the measurement of delinquency (types of offenders and trends), juveniles and the police, intake and pre-adjudicatory processing, classification and preliminary treatment, waivers and other alternatives, prosecutorial decision making in juvenile justice, the adjudicatory process and dispositional alternatives, the legal rights of juveniles, nominal sanctions, warnings, diversion and standard probation, juvenile probation and community-based cased alternatives, and juvenile corrections, custodial sanctions and parole, Addresses GLE Learning Outcomes Social Sciences (SS), Critical Thinking (CT) and Information Literacy (IL).
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