Overview

What is Comparative Criminal Justice? Theoretical Tools to Understand Criminal Justice Criminal Justice: International Overview Professional and Lay Judges Alternatives to Courts/Alternatives in Courts Penal Policy and Punishment Victims and Victimisation The Purpose of Criminal Justice Forms of International Criminal Justice Restorative Justice and Truth Commissions

What is Comparative Criminal Justice? Theoretical Tools to Understand Criminal Justice Criminal Justice: International Overview Professional and Lay Judges Alternatives to Courts/Alternatives in Courts Penal Policy and Punishment Victims and Victimisation The Purpose of Criminal Justice Forms of International Criminal Justice Restorative Justice and Truth Commissions

Assessment Strategy

-threshold -(D) Students should be able to describe, evaluate and analyse the substantive topic/s and present written work that is generally comprehensible and focuses on the question asked; they should show a basic understanding of comparative research and its limitations. -good -(B) Good students should be able to explain with accuracy and critically discuss the appropriate theoretical and empirical issues of the substantive topic/s and locate these within a wider political context; good students should show evidence of consulting a range of complex material and a good understanding of comparative research and its limitations. -excellent -(A) Excellent students should be able to engage in critical analysis of a wide and complex range of material and summarise the arguments with accuracy; relate an understanding of key concepts to perspectives within and beyond the discipline of criminology and criminal justice; excellent students should present work of a high level of accuracy and fluency, and shows an excellent understanding of comparative research and its limitations.

Learning Outcomes

• Gain a systematic and critical understanding of comparative research and its limitations.

• Gain a systematic and critical understanding of different national and cultural practices in relation to sentencing and penal policy.

• Gain a systematic and critical understanding of different prosecution and court practices in different nations.

• Gain a systematic and critical understanding of forms of international criminal justice with an emphasis on the practices of, and debates surrounding, the International Criminal Court.

• Gain a systematic and critical understanding of the impact of victimology on contemporary forms of criminal justice.