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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SOCIOL 361 - The Nature of Offending over the Life Course

3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
This course will introduce students to the foundational aspects of the life course paradigm and its application to the understanding of offending across all phases of the life span (prenatal, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, and adulthood). Students will examine patterns of offending, criminal careers and career criminals, stability and change in deviance/crime, trajectories/transitions/turning points, life course theories of offending, and policy implications.

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: SOCIOL 101  (and SOCIOL 102  for sociology majors)

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