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Learning outcomes

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To supplement the legal knowledge provided in LLB130 Criminal Law and Procedure;
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To foster critical analysis of the law and its application;
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To enhance appreciation of the policy factors that influence the rules and their implications;
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To evaluate approaches to crime with a view to principles of justice and issues of reform
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Describe the structural framework within which criminal law operates;
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Discuss the historical, social, political and economic context in which criminal law operates
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Identify and evaluate the reasoning behind aspects of the criminal law;
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Engage in informed legal argument and policy debate on aspects of the criminal law and criminal justice.

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Additional information

Unit content:This unit will examine the general principles of criminal law, criminalisation and criminal responsibility. This will involve investigating the framework of criminal law, the influences on criminal law, the principles underlying criminal law, the basis for criminalising conduct and the mechanisms by which the criminal law measures harm and culpability and assigns responsibility. Following this exploration of how criminal law is thought to operate there will be an examination of certain traditional and contemporary areas of criminalisation, subject them to either new or deeper analysis (e.g. homicide offences and defences, such as assault causing death offences, mercy killing, abolition or reform of provocation; sexual offences, such as sexting, sex work, sexuality). These case studies will form the basis of a reconsideration of the theoretical concepts and principles and allow an evaluation of the interplay between criminal law and policy.