2025-2026_College Catalog 
    
    May 19, 2025  
2025-2026_College Catalog

AJS 240 - Juvenile Justice Procedures


Credits: 3
Lecture: Three lecture.
History and development of juvenile procedures and institutions.

Course Outcomes:
Students will be able to:
demonstrate by their scores on written assignments and exams, mastery of the basic concepts of juvenile law/legal issues necessary to perform the following:

  1. problem solving techniques;
  2. instruction interpretation;
  3. understanding of criminal justice vocabulary;                 
  4. explain the structural issues of delinquency causation;
  5. how a given agency develops an on going system to keep personnel current with the latest literature studies training and educational purposes addressing J.D.;
  6. describe the management and organizational processes which affect policy related to the juvenile justice system;
  7. describe the impact which the choice of a particular delinquency prevention system can have on outcomes in a given set of circumstances i.e: a case to analyze.