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The Criminal Justice Course
Introduction
1. Emotions and the Law: Seeing Criminal Justice as a Defendant or Victim
1. General
2. Crime and Criminal Justice as Social Phenomena
3. The Nature of Criminal Justice
1. Consent
1. Plea Bargaining
1. Sexual assault: consent, "rape shield", and mistake
1. The constitutional framework of the criminal law
1. The fundamental nature of the criminal offence and the difference between categories of crimes
2. Criminal Responsibility and Capacity 1: Juvenile Justice
2. Discrimination in the Criminal Justice System
2. Equality of arms, disclosure and evidence
2. Mistake
2. The Presumption of Innocence
3. Depenalization, with Focus on Drugs
3. Evidence
3. Intoxication
3. Remedies for Rights Violations and Evidence Exclusion Rules
3. Spousal Violence
3. Voluntariness
4. Duress and Necessity
4. Entrapment: Sting Operations, Mr Big, and Dubious Cell mates
5. Miscarriages of justice
6. Criminal justice and cultural diversity
6. Voluntariness: automatism, duress, necessity and intoxication
7. Participation: How much does it take to commit a crime?
7. Terrorism and the law
Bail and preventive detention
Bail court assignment
Basics of Procedure
Criminal Jurisdiction
1. The territorial reach of criminal justice
2. Criminal justice and legal pluralism
Criminal Offences
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. Criminal Responsibility by Omission?
5. Inchoate, impossible and imaginary offences
6. Who Is the "Reasonable" Person?
Cross-Cutting Issues
Capital Punishment
Civil Disobedience
Conclusion
Confiscation of proceeds of crimes
Corporate Crime
Criminal justice in pop culture
Expert testimony
Extradition
Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Justice
Forensic Evidence
Homicides
Immunities
International Sentencing Transfers
Judicial Misconduct
Juvenile Justice
Libertarian Perspectives on Criminal Justice
Offences Against the Administration of Justice
Pre-Trial Detention
Prison Rights
Racial Profiling
Sexual Assault
Sexual Trafficking
Socialist Perspectives on Criminal Justice
Solitary Confinement
The Criminalization of Expression
The Necessity Defense
The Publicity of Proceedings
Traffic Offences
Universal Jurisdiction
Violations of Intellectual Property
Witnesses
Workplace Offences
Wrongful Convictions
FAQs
General Principles of the Criminal Law
1. The Principle of Legality
3. Criminal Capacity and Responsibility 2. Mental Disorder
4. Statutes of Limitations and Double Jeopardy
Live polling
Models of criminal justice compared
1. Authoritarian v. Liberal
2. "Western" Retributive v. "Indigenous" Restorative?
3. Common Law v. Romano-Germanic Law
Policing
1: Policing and surveillance
2. The Use of Constraint: Search, Seizure and Arrest Powers
3. Investigation and interrogation
Preparing for and writing exams
Rights of the suspect and the defendant
1. Custody and Bail
3. The Right to a Lawyer
4. The Right to Be Tried Within a Reasonable Delay
Sentencing and Clemency
spinning wheel
Suggestions of things to watch on the side
Syllabus
2. Foreign and International Impacts on Criminal Justice
Bail court assignment
How to develop effective readings skills
Untitled
The Historical Development of Criminal Justice
2. In Canada
The justice of criminal justice
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?
The Sources of Criminal Law
The sources of the criminal law
The Theory of Criminal Justice
1. The Utility of Punishment
2. The Justification of Punishment
3. The Critique of Punishment
What makes a good "lawyer" and a good criminal lawyer?
The Criminal Justice Course
The Necessity Defense
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