As per the course calendar description, this course will focus on a variety of topics related to youth, crime, and deviance. This course examines norm-breaking behaviour as it applies to youth as perpetrators and victims as well as socio-cultural and legal interpretations of crime. By studying how and why social control is applied to juveniles and young adults as distinct from adults, you can develop an understanding of the ways in which the place and perception of youth in modern society is defined by perceptions about crime and deviance.
By comparing theories of crime and delinquency with actual findings about crime, this course critically examines the "social problem" of youth, crime, and deviance through the dimensions of age, class, race, gender, religion, geography, and social change. Youth, crime, and deviance are the main intersecting themes and building blocks of this course.
By comparing theories of crime and delinquency with actual findings about crime, this course critically examines the "social problem" of youth, crime, and deviance through the dimensions of age, class, race, gender, religion, geography, and social change. Youth, crime, and deviance are the main intersecting themes and building blocks of this course.
- Instructor: Laura Mudde