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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

SOC 311 - Crime and Justice across the Life Span - Juveniles

3 credits
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or ANT 111 or SOC/ANT 113 or CJS 190
Brings together aspects of the anthropology and sociology of resistance and social control, social constructions of deviance, and psychological and social development to consider how and why behaviors may change through the life span. Gender, ethnicity and class are among elements that may be considered in understanding developmental changes and influences on behavoir, as well as responses to social contextual stressors and other factors. Part I - Juveniles - addresses development and behaviors of the child/adolescent population. Cross-listed as ANT 311, CJS 311