Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
6029LAWCJ-JAN-MTP
Aims
This module aims to give students who have already studied the general and specific part of criminal law a deeper theoretical understanding of the principles and values influencing criminal law in England today, through the in-depth study of key writers and thinkers in the criminal law field.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Demonstrate advanced and critical knowledge of the work of key theorists in the field of criminal law
2.
Critically analyse the roles played by the work of key criminal law theorists in current criminal law decision-making
3.
Draw upon critical analysis of criminal law theorists' ideas to gain a deep, theoretically-informed understanding of the current and future values and boundaries of the criminal law
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Thinking critically about criminalisation and the criminal law
Theoretical models of the criminal law and its values
Key thinkers in criminal law I: the liberal positivists (Glanville Williams and JC Smith)
Key thinkers in criminal law II: back to the future (George Fletcher)
Key thinkers in criminal law III: the emergence of Marxism and critical legal studies (Mark Kelman)
Key thinkers in criminal law IV: critical realism, history and the critique of liberalism (Alan Norrie)
Key thinkers in criminal law V: liberalism and rights (Andrew Ashworth)
Key thinkers in criminal law VI: restoration and regulation (John Braithwaite)
Key thinkers in criminal law VII: criminal law, morality and the community (Antony Duff)
Key thinkers in criminal law VIII: feminist perspectives on criminal law (Ngaire Naffine, Celia Wells and Lucia Zedner)
Key thinkers in criminal law VII: risk, character and governance (Nicola Lacey and Lindsay Farmer)
Linking theoretical ideas on the criminal law to practice: what is criminal law really there for?
Module Overview:
This module aims to give students who are already familiar with the general and specific part of criminal law a deeper, more theoretically-informed understanding of the values and principles driving criminal law, which influence criminal law's past, present and future.
This module aims to give students who are already familiar with the general and specific part of criminal law a deeper, more theoretically-informed understanding of the values and principles driving criminal law, which influence criminal law's past, present and future.
Additional Information:This module aims to give students who are already familiar with the general and specific part of criminal law a deeper, more theoretically-informed understanding of the values and principles driving criminal law, which influence criminal law's past, present and future.