The Criminal Justice Course

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  • Syllabus
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  • Introduction
    • 1. Emotions and the Law: Seeing Criminal Justice as a Defendant or Victim
    • 2. Crime and Criminal Justice as Social Phenomena
    • 3. The Nature of Criminal Justice
  • The Historical Development of Criminal Justice
    • 1. General
    • 2. In Canada
  • The Theory of Criminal Justice
    • 1. The Utility of Punishment
    • 2. The Justification of Punishment
    • 3. The Critique of Punishment
  • Models of criminal justice compared
    • 1. Authoritarian v. Liberal
    • 2. "Western" Retributive v. "Indigenous" Restorative?
    • 3. Common Law v. Romano-Germanic Law
  • Criminal Jurisdiction
    • 1. The territorial reach of criminal justice
    • 2. Criminal justice and legal pluralism
  • The Sources of Criminal Law
    • 1. The constitutional framework of the criminal law
    • 2. Foreign and International Impacts on Criminal Justice
  • Policing
    • 1: Policing and surveillance
    • 2. The Use of Constraint: Search, Seizure and Arrest Powers
    • 3. Investigation and interrogation
  • Rights of the suspect and the defendant
    • 1. Custody and Bail
    • 2. The Presumption of Innocence
    • 3. The Right to a Lawyer
    • 4. The Right to Be Tried Within a Reasonable Delay
  • General Principles of the Criminal Law
    • 1. The Principle of Legality
    • 2. Criminal Responsibility and Capacity 1: Juvenile Justice
    • 3. Criminal Capacity and Responsibility 2. Mental Disorder
    • 4. Statutes of Limitations and Double Jeopardy
  • Criminal Offences
    • 1. The fundamental nature of the criminal offence and the difference between categories of crimes
    • 2. Causality: "chains of causation," "thin skulls" and "novus actus interveniens"
    • 3. Absolute, Objective or Subjective Criminal Liability (and for What Offences?)
    • 4. Understanding Mens Rea: Objective and Subjective Fault Requirements
    • 5. Inchoate, impossible and imaginary offences
    • 6. Voluntariness: automatism, duress, necessity and intoxication
    • 7. Participation: How much does it take to commit a crime?
  • The Principal Actors of the Criminal Justice System: Status and Role
    • 1. The Role, Independence and Impartiality of Judges
    • 2. Prosecutors: How Far Should Discretion Go?
    • 3. Should Juries Be "Representative" and How?
    • 4. Defence Lawyers: The Ethics of Defending
    • 5. What Role for Victims?
  • Basics of Procedure
    • 1. Plea Bargaining
    • 2. Equality of arms, disclosure and evidence
    • 3. Remedies for Rights Violations and Evidence Exclusion Rules
  • Sentencing and Clemency
  • Cross-Cutting Issues
    • 1. Sexual assault: consent, "rape shield", and mistake
    • 2. Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System
    • 3. Depenalization, with Focus on Drugs

Policing


Subpages (3): 1: Policing and surveillance 2. The Use of Constraint: Search, Seizure and Arrest Powers 3. Investigation and interrogation
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