University of London International Programmes
Postgraduate Laws programme:
Master of Laws (LLM), Postgraduate Diploma and Postgraduate Certificate
Course outline (not yet available)
| Sentencing and penal policy |
| Section A: Prosecution process |
| · Aims and objectives of the criminal justice process |
| · Decision to charge or caution |
| · Prosecutorial review |
| · Mode of trial |
| Section B: Sentencing |
| · Principles of sentencing |
| · Sentencing framework |
| · Custody under the United Kingdom's Criminal Justice Act 2003 |
| · Sentencing reform |
| Section C: Punishment |
| · Financial penalties |
| · Community penalties |
| · Prisons |
| · Hospital as ‘punishment’ |
| Section D: Current issues in penal policy |
| · Discrimination in sentencing |
| · Rights of prisoners |
| · Prison privatisation |
| · Victims |
Sequence:
The sections must be attempted in order. |
Textbooks:
Andrew Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice 4th ed (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005), ISBN: 9780521674058 |
| Susan Easton and Christine Piper, Sentencing and Punishment: The Quest for Punishment 2nd ed (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) ISBN: 9780199218103 |
