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The Nature of Offending over the Life Course
Course #: SOCIOL 361
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.
Pre Requisites: Pre-requisite: SOCIOL 101 and SOCIOL 262. Sociology Majors are also required to have completed SOCIOL 102