2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LAW1263 Criminal Law 2

20 creditsClass Size: 330

Module manager: Imogen Jones
Email: I.Jones2@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons) in a non-law subject

This module is mutually exclusive with

LAW1141	Introduction to Criminal Law
LAW1260	Criminal Law
LAW2065	Criminal Law
LAW2066	Criminal Law

Module replaces

This module replaces the 30 credit variant of LAW1260 Criminal Law for the 2 Year LLB programme. The 30 credit variant remains in place for 3 Year LLB students.

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

This compulsory module will introduce students to core criminal law concepts and to the criminal justice system within which the criminal law is applied.

Objectives

This module will provide students with the opportunity to learn about key criminal law principles, cases and legislation, and to recognise the different political and cultural contexts in which criminal law operates at national and international level. This will be achieved through lectures, seminars, learning activities, and formative assessments.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:

1. Competently recognise, identify and state legal concepts, values, principles and rules of criminal law, having been introduced to these through lectures, seminars and learning activities

2. Apply appropriate terminology and legal reasoning to produce a coherent legal account of an issue of limited complexity relating to criminal law, having been given the opportunity to observe and practice different ways of doing so through seminar preparation and participation, and through their formative assessment

3. Interpret criminal law information and data to provide a basic insight into the operation of the criminal law and system and their relationship to relevant social, cultural and political contexts, having been introduced to these through lectures, seminars and learning activities, and having been given the opportunity to practice such interpretation through seminars, learning activities and the formative assessment

4. Recognise the different political and cultural contexts in which criminal law operates at national and international levels, through lectures, seminars and learning activities

Skills outcomes
Skills introduced:

Analytical and evaluation skills, which will be defined and explained in assessment lectures and through example reports from previous assessment periods. Informal feedback will also be provided to students through seminars, where the analytical strength of their verbal contributions will be commented upon by seminar leaders

Skills practiced:

Verbal reasoning, through participation in seminars

Written skills, through the formative assessment

Time management, through independent study time for seminars, learning activities and the formative and summative assessments

Analytical and evaluation skills, through preparation for seminars, contributions to seminars, and through assessments

Skills assessed:

Written analytical and evaluation skills, through the presentation in the Report of a current legal position, an evaluation of that position, and an evaluation of how that legal position might be altered through reform

Syllabus

This module builds and expands upon the core topics and theoretical basis of criminal law that students learnt in LAW1262 Criminal Law 1. It will advance students’ understanding of criminal law by teaching them how these core areas underpin a range of specific criminal offences, and by encouraging them to critically engage with the laws that create these offences.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	11	1.00	11.00
Seminar	4	1.50	4.50
Independent online learning hours			5.00
Private study hours			179.50
Total Contact hours			15.50
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

200

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

A formative assessment opportunity will be provided.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Report	Report will require students to argue for reform in response to one of six titles provided by the Criminal Law team.	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

The Report will require students to argue for reform in response to one of six titles provided by the Criminal Law team. Students will be given a template document to help them to structure their Reports, and will be required to engage with academic literature, policy papers and case law. Students re-sitting in August will be required to choose an alternative title to that chosen in May. The teaching and assessment on this module are closely linked to LAW1262 Criminal Law 1 but they are marked independently - so it would be possible to achieve a 2000 word report with a fail mark but a 500 word summary with a pass mark, and vice-versa . As they are two separate modules, it is compulsory to pass both assessments individually to achieve the credits for the respective modules.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 16/07/2024

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