Crime, Deviance and issues in Contemporary Youth Culture.

Your Journal should be composed of reflections and
you are asked to:
1) Identify the topic 2) List a major piece of reading (Chapter) which helped in developing your understanding of the topic. Critically analyse this selected reading. In what ways did this reading help you appreciate the nature of the topic? 3) Outline the other learning experiences on the module related to the topic. What form did these experiences take? (Lectures, seminars, other readings etc). What did you learn? How challenging did you find these learning experiences? 4) Connect the topic to an issue (or concern) occurring in society today. To what extent did the topic assist in helping you understand this issue? 5) How did the debates and theories introduced in other areas of the module developed or challenged your understandings of the topic? Were you introduced to new understandings or explanations of the topic? 6) Consider the ways in which an understanding of the topic may be useful in your continuing professional development.