JPS COURSE
OUTCOMES
Course: JUST 4540. Juvenile Justice Law
Description: Historical and case oriented approach to the legal basis
of individualized justice for children, including early common law approaches,
the child saving movement, the juvenile court era, and the modern challenge to
the court by the constitutionalists.
Expected Learning Outcomes:
We expect students completing this course to be able to:
- discuss the challenges
facing juvenile justice in the twenty-first century.
- discuss official and
unofficial measurements of juvenile crime.
- explain the role of the
police in preventing and controlling youth crime.
- discuss the juvenile court,
its processes and court personnel.
- examine the issue of
juvenile waiver.
- discuss the role of
community-based corrections in juvenile justice.
- identify the structures and
programming of long-term confinement of juveniles.
- examine theory and research
in juvenile justice.
- discuss the major social
correlates influencing youth crime.
- discuss treatment
technologies.
- explore international
juvenile justice.