CRIM 260 - Client Growth and Development

3 Credit: (3 lecture, 0 lab, 0 clinical) 3 Contact Hours: [Reading Level 3 ]

1. Define law.
2. Define society.
3. Define culture.
4. Define mores.
5. Define tradition.

Goal 2:  Assess the impact of early environments on behavior.

1. Describe human need for love and affection.
2. Explain impact of sensory deprivation.
3. Identify typical benchmark events in human development.
4. Explain findings of research done with twins raised in different environments.

Goal 3:  Determine the influence of biological factors on behavior.

1. Discuss the “nature vs. nurture” controversy of behavior.
2. Identify psychological disorders known to have hereditary or biological origins.
3. List known psychogenic drugs and describe their impact on behavior.
4. List common street drugs and describe their impact on behavior.
5. Describe the effects of alcohol on behavior.
6. Describe the effects of drugs and alcohol on fetal development.

Goal 4:  Determine the role of environment on behavior.

1. Define anomie
2. Define differential association.
3. Describe the influence of peer pressure and labeling.
4. Analyze social roles and personality.

Goal 5:  Generalize criminal lifestyles.

1. Define criminogenic.
2. Define victimless crime.

Goal 6:  Evaluate the role family has on behavior.

1. Describe effects of divorce and single parent families on behavior.
2. Compare large family with small family behavior patterns.

Goal 7:  Summarize human development of juvenile and young adult offenders.

1. Define selective enforcement.
2. Describe the treatment model employed by the Juvenile Justice system.
3. Describe the various treatment alternatives available to juvenile authorities and Probate Judges.
4. Describe the three basic stages of development.
5. Discuss role ambiguity.
6. Explain the influence of gender on young adult development.
7. Describe the interaction of physical appearance on self-concept and behavior.
8. Describe typical coping mechanisms of young adults.
9. Explain how some coping mechanisms can develop into criminal behavior.

Goal 8:  Diagnose specific problems related to the offender.

1. Define long-term gratification.
2. Define short-term gratification.
3. Explain how inability to achieve goals leads to criminal behavior.
4. Categorize classical ego defense mechanisms.
5. Determine the role substance abuse has on criminal behavior.
6. Outline specific medical problems that relate to offenders.

Goal 9:  Explain specific sexual problems that relate to offenders.

1. Describe long-term effects of child abuse.
2. Describe various links between sex and violence.

Goal 10:  Specify medical disorders that relate to offenders.

1. Determine the influence of psychological/psychotic factors on behavior.
2. Determine the influence of social disorder factors on behavior.
3. Determine the influence of dangerous factors on behavior.
4. Determine the influence of labeling concerns on behavior.

Goal 11:  Assess suicide risk.

1. Define suicide gesture.
2. Describe the profile of a typical suicide.
3. Formulate suicide prevention strategies.

Goal 12:  Compare the costs of institutionalization to other intervention options.

1. Describe costs to the government.
2. Describe costs to the society.
3. Describe costs to the offender.

Goal 13:  Examine key issues in client growth and development.

1. Compare U.S. sentencing policies with those of other nations.
2. Evaluate treatment and control community alternatives to institutionalization.
3. Appraise the training problems associated with preparing people to work with offenders.
4. Compare the benefits of institutionalization to other intervention options.