What I will learn?

• Understand the Nature of Crime: Gain a comprehensive understanding of what constitutes a crime, its various classifications, and its impact on society.
• Comprehend Legal Principles: Develop a solid grasp of the foundational legal principles that underpin the criminal justice system.
• Analyse Actus Reus and Mens Rea: Differentiate between the actus reus (criminal act) and mens rea (criminal intent) elements of a crime and evaluate their significance.
• Explore Inchoate Liability: Examine incitement, conspiracy, and attempt as forms of inchoate liability and understand their legal implications.
• Understand Participation in Crimes: Identify the roles of principals, accomplices, and innocent agents in criminal activities and assess the concept of transferred malice.
• Evaluate Crime Prevention Strategies: Explore various crime prevention approaches, including situational and social crime prevention, and their effectiveness.
• Examine the Role of Police: Analyse the roles, responsibilities, and accountability of law enforcement agencies in the criminal justice system.
• Delve into the Prosecution Process: Understand the prosecution process, including cautioning, prosecution of mentally disordered offenders, and the Code for Crown Prosecutors.
• Study Youth Justice System: Explore the youth justice system in the UK, including youth courts, diversion, and sentencing of young offenders.
• Comprehend the Trial Process: Gain insight into adversarial justice, the role of trials, jury selection, defendant's rights, and the appeals process.
• Learn about Sentencing: Explore the aims of sentencing, different types of sentences, and factors affecting sentencing decisions.
• Analyse Homicide: Examine the legal aspects of homicide, including murder, culpable homicide, manslaughter, and related appeals.
• Investigate Offences against the Person: Study offences such as assault, battery, and assaults on emergency workers.
• Examine Sexual Offences: Understand sexual assault, engaging in sexual activity without consent, and rape laws.
• Explore Theft Offences: Analyse the Theft Act of 1968, actus reus, mens rea, and related theft offences.
• Study Blackmail, Robbery, and Burglary: Understand the elements of blackmail, robbery, and burglary offences.
• Scrutinise White-Collar Crime: Investigate white-collar crime, including offences under the Theft Act of 1968 and the Fraud Act of 2006.
• Discuss Terrorism and Law: Explore the concept of terrorism, its causes, and the legal framework for prosecuting terrorist activities.
• Examine Property Offences: Study property-related offences involving deception, dishonesty, and evasion of liability.
• Learn about Cybercrime and Piracy: Understand cybercrime, piracy, relevant legislation, and international conventions related to cybercrime.
• Discover Prisons: Explore the origins of prisons, the prison system in England and Wales, inmate categories, and the impact of incarceration.
• Understand the Probation Service: Examine the origins, functions, and priorities of the probation service, as well as parole.