16.7 3rd and 4th years Ms D Greig. 3rd year: Any two second year level Criminology subjects; 4th year: Admission to Criminology Honours. First semester A 1-hour lecture, a 2-hour seminar and no more than 26 hours of visits and interviews. At the conclusion of this subject students should:

• have an understanding of the various ways in which the criminal justice and mental health systems interact;
• have some awareness of the paradigmatic differences between the law and psychiatry;
• understand the debates within psychiatry regarding its special relation to the state;
• appreciate the reality of mental illness and intellectual disability and their personal and societal consequences;
• be familiar with the historical and social context in which madness is contextualised;
• understand the legislative and political responses to the mentally disordered offender.

Critical appraisal of the medical and legal professions in their social control function. Up to 5,000 words of written work at 3rd year level and 6,000 words at 4th year level. An examination may be substituted for part of the written work.