University of London International Programmes
Postgraduate Laws programme:
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 2nd ed (Cullompton: Willan, 2010),
ISBN: 9781843927693 |
| 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 or 9780140187656 |
