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 191-204 Criminal Law and Criminology

Note

Available as 191-304 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Dr A Young

Prerequisites

Normally 25 points of first-year Criminology.

Semester

1

Contact

Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description

Understanding conceptions of crime and criminal liability; the structure of the criminal process; the role of criminal law and legal reasoning in the interpretation and regulation of behaviour; analysing the phenomena of criminalisation and de-criminalisation; understanding the framework and general principles of criminal law (with reference to specific offences); developing skills of legal research and interpreting legal sources.

Assessment

Up to 5000 words of written work. An examination may be substituted for part of the written work.

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