Postgraduate study in Laws:

Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate

Course outline

Comparative criminal justice policy
Section A: Methods of comparative research
· Finding data
· Measuring crime
· Comparing statistics
· Comparing policies
Section B: Legal cultures and criminal justice policy
· Common law
· Civil law
· Socialist law
· Islamic law
Section C: Aspects of comparative criminal policy
· Policing and prosecution
· Trials and sentencing
· Use of imprisonment
· Probation and community punishment
Section D: Global crime
· Controlling transnational crime
· War crimes
· Terrorism
· International law and crime
Sequence: The sections must be attempted in order.
Textbooks: Francis Pakes, Comparative Criminal Justice (Cullompton: Willan, 2003), ISBN: 9781843920311 Tim Newburn and Richard Sparks (eds), Criminal Justice and Political Cultures (Cullompton: Willan, 2004),                    ISBN: 9781843920540 Alison Liebling and Shadd Maruna (eds), The Effects of Imprisonment (Cullompton: Willan, 2006), ISBN: 9781843922179 Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (London: Penguin, 2006), ISBN: 9780143039884