4141
Delinquency
SYLLABUS AND ASSIGNMENTSLECTURE SLIDES [note: links disabled 5/15/04]
1. Jan 21 Introduction: Welcome! [htm]
2. Jan 23 Defining and Measuring Delinquency [htm]
3. Jan 28 Extent and Nature of Delinquency: Official Statistics [htm]
4. Jan 30 Extent and Nature: Self-Reports and Victimization [htm]
5. Feb 4 Cobain and Careers [htm]
6. Feb 6 From Correlates to Causal Models/Choice [htm]
7. Feb 11 Rational Choice and Deterrence [htm]
8. Feb 13 Differential Association [htm]
9. Feb 18 Social Control & Self Control [htm]
10. Feb 20 Contrast Differential Association and Social Control [htm]
11. Feb 25 Labeling and Diversion [htm]
12. Feb 27 Gangs [htm]
Mar 3 Review
Mar 5 Midterm
13. Mar 10 Gangs and Social Disorganization [htm]
Mar 12 Paper assignment discussion
Mar 13 - 21 Spring Break
14. Mar 24 Social Disorganization [htm]
Mar 26 Film: Angels with Dirty Faces (midterm evaluations)
15. Mar 29 Social Structure and Anomie [htm]
16. Apr 1 Conflict [htm]
17. Apr 7 Sex Stratification and the Gender Gap [htm]
Apr 9 Paper assignment discussion
18. Apr 14 Prevention and Juvenile Justice [htm]
19. Apr 16 Juvenile Sex Offending (Guest: Professor Ann Meier) [htm]
20. Apr 21 Police and the Juvenile Court (draft paper exchange) [htm]
21. Apr 23 Policing Juveniles (Guest: Officer Griff Hillbo, former 4141 student)
22. Apr 28 Institutionalization (final papers due) [htm]
23. Apr 30 SITE VISIT: MCF-Red Wing (arrive at facility by 12:30)
24. May 5 Class Discussion and Review [htm]
25. May 7 Class Discussion and Review
FINAL: Wednesday May 12 4:00
REFERENCE LINKS
Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising (summary)[complete]
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Minnesota Planning Criminal Justice Information
Minnesota Department of Corrections
Hennepin County (Minneapolis) Community CorrectionsJUVENILE JUSTICE LINKS
Minnesota Juvenile Code (Ch. 260, 260A, 260B, 260C) (enter chapter number)
National Center for Juvenile Justice
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice