16.7 2nd and 3rd years To be advised. Normally 25 points of first-year Criminology. Second semester Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week. Students completing this subject should:

• understand the nature and purposes of legal punishment as administered by the state, and how this has developed over the years;
• be familiar with and understand the range of correctional issues presented in lectures;
• be able to discuss the given range of correctional issues in class, present the results of library research, and contribute to class discussions in an informed and confident way;
• be able to conduct library research into a chosen correctional issue and produce a logically structured, coherent and concise evaluative report setting out prior work on the area or areas in question and suggesting ways in which problems could be addressed in the future;
• be able to write the essay referred to above in accordance with stated publication style guidelines.

Theory and practice of the correctional system. Up to 5,000 words of written work. An examination of up to two hours may be substituted for part of the written work.