Course summary

A cutting-edge and intellectually demanding programme, the LLM in Criminal Law and Criminal Justice will equip you with an advanced knowledge and understanding of the key concepts and theories underpinning criminal law and criminal justice and how they operate in practice. The programme covers the following core areas:

• Current issues in criminal law and criminal justice

• Fundamental principles of substantive and procedural criminal law

• Criminalization

• International, transnational and European criminal law

• Sexual offending

• Global crime and insecurity

• The penal process

• Different approaches to understanding and critiquing criminal laws and criminal justice, including: doctrinal, comparative, theoretical and social-legal methods