Juvenile Delinquency Prevention is the effort to reduce law-breaking by young people by addressing the conditions that promote it, including those in the family, the school, and the peer group.
What it covers
The catalog states: “This course will consider the subject of juvenile delinquency from various perspectives including substance use prevention, psychological, physiological and sociological perspectives.”
Particular attention is paid to the role of family, the school, and the peer group in promoting delinquency. The course provides students with the tools to analyze and evaluate juvenile justice issues, and the juvenile justice system.
Which program covers it
In InterCoast Colleges’ Bachelor of Applied Science — Addiction Studies program, juvenile delinquency prevention is covered in the course AOD308, Prevention: Juvenile Delinquency.
The Bachelor of Applied Science — Addiction Studies outline lists AOD308 Prevention: Juvenile Delinquency at 45 clock hours (45 lecture, 0 laboratory) and 3 semester credits.
Prerequisites for AOD308: none.
It sits alongside substance abuse prevention, criminal thinking in addiction, and criminal justice systems in the Bachelor of Applied Science — Addiction Studies program.
This topic is covered in the Bachelor of Applied Science — Addiction Studies program at InterCoast Colleges.