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 191-429 Human Rights and Criminal Justice

Note

Available as 191-329 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Not offered in 1998.

Credit Points

16.7 3rd and 4th year

Prerequisites

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

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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