Also from a multicultural perspective, students study the impact of culture on adolescent behavior, issues regarding minorities within the juvenile justice system, and how youth service providers can better meet the needs of youth. This course includes a 20 hour community service component. This course is intended to provide students with practical skills related to working with delinquent children and youth, addressing issues related to one on one interaction, programming, and policy development and implementation. The course is an introduction to the identification, prevention, and solution of individual, family, and community problems, while managing and setting policies for youth service agencies. Advocacy skills, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution techniques are studied.
Students have the opportunity to explore issues related to working in an inter-agency environment.
This course includes a 20 hour community service component. The primary purpose and focus of this course is to explore the different viewpoints and positions about the current influence of racial and ethnic bias on the treatment of ethnic minority subgroups within America s criminal justice system. Additionally, this course examines the relationship between s tereotypical images of color and the realities of crime and punishment. This course includes a 20 hour community service component. This course offers an extensive, systematic, and interdisciplinary examination of juvenile justice administration in the United States.