CSS242:Measurements and Patterns of Crime and Delinquency
This course is a three-credit unit course for undergraduate students in the arts and social sciences. The materials have been developed with the Nigerian context in view. This Course Guide gives you an overview of the course. It also provides you with information on the organisation and requirements of the course.
Teacher Of Course
Includes
On successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
- define what crime and delinquency is
- identify the place of crime and delinquency in the society
- discover the causal factors responsible for crime and delinquency
- explain the typology of crime and delinquency
- identify the personnel and institutions that play a role in crime and delinquency
- differentiate between crime and delinquency
- explain how crime and delinquency is measured in the society
- enumerate the patterns of crime and delinquency in the society
- discuss the shortcomings of measuring crime and delinquency
- discuss the trend of crime and delinquency in pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Nigeria.
Course Department
Course Features
Lessons Of Course
defining crime
15:28
history of crime
13:01
theories of crime
07:08
classification of crime
12:20
impact of Crime
13:10
defining Delinquency
10:18
causes of Delinquency
12:28
theories of Delinquency
09:28
Type of Delinquency
11:20
impact of Delinquency
14:47