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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Criminology

191-329/429 Human Rights and Criminal Justice

Credit Points:

16.7 3rd and 4th year

Coordinator:

Mr S Johnston

Prerequisite/s:

3rd year: Any two second year level Criminology subjects; 4th year: Admission to Criminology Honours.

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

A 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour seminar

Subject Description:

Theories and sources of natural rights and criminal justice; changing sources of rights; bills of rights. Crimes of state. Status in the law; equal opportunity. Rights of crime victims, criminals, children, women, Aborigines, other minorities, refugees, mentally ill, the poor. Self-determination of a people. Rights definitions and mechanisms in the SW Pacific; individual petition, national reporting.

Assessment:

Up to 5000 words of written work at 3rd year level and 6000 words at 4th year level. An examination may be substituted for part of the written work.

Prescribed Texts:

UN, Human Rights: A Compilation of International Instruments, 1994.

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