RT Article
T1 Student Perceptions of Juvenile Offender Accounts in Criminal Justice Education
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 39
IS 3
SP 611
OP 629
A1 Miner-Romanoff, Karen
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764200764
AB In criminal justice programs, a major teaching objective is to expose students to the wide range of experiences and career paths available in criminal justice. Technological advances increase instructional strategies so that students may gain more realistic educational experience and correct erroneous perceptions about the criminal justice system. This paper describes one such strategy for online criminal justice students, a virtual prison tour, founded on the principles of social learning, experiential learning, and e-learning. In an upperclass course in juvenile delinquency, 43 students viewed a video of incarcerated juvenile offenders recounting their experiences of institutionalization, sentences, challenges, programming, and fears upon release. Student responses to seven quantitative questions and one qualitative question revealed that the video greatly impacted their attitudes, understanding, and perceptions of the juvenile justice system and provided pedagogical benefits. This strategy can be used to help criminal justice educators enhance student learning so that students experience a major aspect of the juvenile justice system.
K1 Innovative online strategies
K1 Prison tours
K1 Virtual learning
K1 Adult learning
K1 Criminal justice programs
K1 Online teaching
DO 10.1007/s12103-013-9223-5