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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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