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Criminological and Criminal Justice Theories:
- Feminist criminology, Radical and Critical criminology, Environmental criminology, Packer's Crime Control and Due Process models, Criminal Justice as Politics, Late-modern theories of criminal justice (managerialism/privatisation/control).
Societal reaction to crime, crime and the media, politics and crime.
Advanced mens rea and actus reus : A deeper look at the basis of criminal liability than that carried out in Foundations of Criminal Law, including discussion of modern - day issues such as the criminalisation of transmitting sexually transmitted diseases: intention, recklessness, negligence
Advanced Defences:
-Focus on the defence of Provocation, including Battered Wives Syndrine
-Focus on the defence of Self-Defence, including the defeince of the home
Advanced Offences:
-Sexual Offences: crisis in relation to statutory rape: CC v Ireland, Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) Act, 2006, Criminal Justice (Sexual Offences) Amendment Act, 2007
-Terrorism and the response of the criminal law - an analysis of modern-day criminal law responses to the increased threat of terrorism both in this jurisdiction and others.
-Murder and Manslaughter: advanced analysis of the need for change in this area and related issues such as gun and knife crime
Development of Irish criminal justice system and criminal law:
- criminalisation and de-criminalisation of certain offences (homosexuality, contraception, syringe offences, rape as a gendered offence);
- changes in trial and punishment (victim impact statements, juvenile justice, compensation orders);
- moves away from reliance on criminal law (e.g. Criminal Assets Bureau, ASBOs).
Within this module there will also be an opportunity for students to participate in a tour of Mountjoy Prison.
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Core
- Maguire, Morgan and Reiner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology, 4th edition, Oxford: OUP 2007
- OMahony (ed.), Criminal Justice in Ireland, Dublin: Institute of Public Administration, 2002
- Walsh, Criminal Procedure, Dublin: Thomson Round Hall, 2002
- Charleton, McDermott and Bolger, Criminal Law, Dublin: Butterworths, 1999
- Lecture notes and links to relevant journal articles, case-law and websites will be available on the DCU Moodle page for this module.
- Students should also regularly refer to relevant journals, such as the Irish Criminal Law Journal, the Judicial Studies Institute Journal, and the British Journal of Criminology.
Supplementary
- Hale, Hayward, Wahidin and Wincup, Criminology, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2009
- Smith and Hogan, Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, 10th ed. London: Oxford University Press, 2009
- Lanier, The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Criminology and Criminal Justice, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006
- Nicola and Wells, Reconstructing Criminal Law, 3rd Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2003
- ODonnell and OSullivan, Crime Control in Ireland: The Politics of Intolerance, Cork University Press, 2001
- Garland, The Culture of Control :Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society, Oxford: OUP, 2001
- Pavlich, Critique and Radical Discourses on Crime, Aldershot: Ashgate Dartmouth, 2000
- Bibbings and Nicolson, Feminist Perspectives on Criminal Law, Routledge UK, 2000
- Bacik and OConnell (eds.), Crime and Poverty in Ireland, Dublin; Round Hall, 1998
- Nicola and Wells, Reconstructing Criminal Law, 2nd Edition, Butterworths UK, 1998
- Daly and Maher (eds.), Criminology at the Crossroads : Feminist Readings in Crime and Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998
- OMahony, Criminal Chaos, Dublin: Round Hall, 1996
- Fennell, Crime and Crisis in Ireland, Cork University Press, 1993
- Packer, The Limits of the Criminal Sanction, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1967
- Some useful electronic resources are: Justis, WestLaw IE, FirstLaw, LexisNexis, www.bailii.org, www.irishstatutebook.ie, www.lawreform.ie, www.courts.ie, www.echr.coe.int
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