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COURSE SYLLABUS: Deviant Behavior

Course Title: Department: Instructor:

CJ460 - Deviant Behavior Criminal Justice Jay Strike Carlin, DPsy, JD, MBA, MS E-Mail -- Vita

Course Objectives:

This course will evaluate the various theoretical approaches toward deviant behavior. Specifically, the course will identify various forms of deviant behavior including alcohol and tobacco, drug use and delve into sexual deviant behavior. A comprehensive picture of deviant behavior will be developed from both a mental and physical perspective.

Text: - Online Bookstore

Deviant Behavior, 6th edition, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2001
ISBN #: 0130825786

Course Requirements:

There will be two exams (one midterm and one final). The format will be essay and will cover the material that has been presented in the text. The exams are expected to be completed no later than the last day of the week on week five and the last day of the week on week nine, respectively.

The midterm exam will cover subjects in the first six chapters of the textbook and the final exam will cover the subjects from chapter seven through chapter 14 only. It is not a cumulative final exam.

There will also be written assignments given for this class and these are part of your final grade in the course. Each of the written assignments will focus on a concept fully discussed in your textbook. In order to gain the ,most benefit from this course, the student should attempt to treat these written assignments as representative examples of the types of questions that will be found on both the midterm and the final exams. The student is also reminded that they should answer these questions based on their own perspective and incorporate concepts found in the text with their own ideas as to how they would respond to a given situation occurring. The written assignments are due during the week following the class in which the assignment is given.

Course Schedule:

Week One:

Chapter One – Introduction
Chapter Two – What is Deviance?

- Written Assignment #1 – Covering Chapters One and Two

Week Two:

Chapter Three – What is to be Explained?
Chapter Four – Explaining Deviant Behavior: Positivist Theories

- Written Assignment #2 – Covering Chapters Three and Four

Week Three:

Chapter Five – Constructionist Theories of Deviance
Chapter Six – Criminal Behavior

- Written Assignment #3 – Covering Chapters Five and Six

Week Four:

Chapter Seven – Drug Use as a Deviant Behavior

- No Written Assignment – Study for Midterm

Week Five:

MIDTERM

Week Six:

Chapter Eight – Legal Drugs: The Use of Alcohol & Tobacco
Chapter Nine – Heterosexual Deviance

- Written Assignment #4 – Covering Chapters Eight and Nine

Week Seven:

Chapter Ten – Male and Female Homosexuality
Chapter Eleven – Physical Characteristics as Deviance

- Written Assignment #5 – Covering Chapters Ten and Eleven

Week Eight:

Chapter Twelve – Cognitive Deviance
Chapter Thirteen – Mental Illness
Chapter Fourteen – Ideological, Ethical, & Moral Implications of Studying Deviance

- No Written Assignment – Study for Final Exam

Week Nine:

FINAL EXAM


Written Assignments:

Chapter One and Two:

- Briefly discuss three of the five naοve, misleading definitions of deviance outlined in your text.

Chapters Three and Four:

- The constructionist enterprise is made up of four steps. Please list them and briefly explain each one.

Chapters Five and Six:

- White-collar crime has several correlative features associated with it. Please name and discuss three of these features.

Chapters Eight and Nine:

- What harmful effects did Prohibition of Alcohol have in the 1920’s – 1930’s?

Chapters Ten and Eleven:

- Name and describe two different types of physical deviance outlined in your text.


Grading Procedure:

Midterm Exam – 40% of final grade in course
Final Exam – 40% of final grade in course
Three written assignments – 20% of final grade in course

90 – 100% 80 – 90% 70 – 80% 60 – 70% Below 60%

A B C D F