Postgraduate Course: Organised Crime and the Law (LAWS11299)
Course Outline
| School | School of Law |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course examines how the United Kingdom and its constituent jurisdictions have responded to the threat of organised criminality, by amendment of substantive laws and criminal procedure, and through the adoption of civil measures. The primary focus is on domestic legislation and case law, though reference is made to transnational and international legal measures and to the jurisprudence of the ECHR. Comparative reference is also made to the United States and other common law jurisdictions. Throughout, the doctrinal law is placed in context by the use of criminological theories and other conceptual insights. |
| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 25 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
| Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
176 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Class participation (on-going) - 20%
Detailed criteria will be circulated at the beginning of semester. Each student will be given feedback mid-way through the term as to his/her participation mark, and about how this may be improved.
Written work of 5,000 words - 80%
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| Feedback |
There will be a formative assessment to be submitted in week 5. After its return with feedback, student will be invited to reflect upon their feedback and submit a short paragraph indicating how they will act on this in the summative essay.
Each student will be given feedback mid-way through the term as to his/her class participation mark, and about how this may be improved.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the problematic and contested nature of the definition of organised crime
- Assess critically the range of legal mechanisms introduced across the UK to deal with organised crime, including substantive and procedural laws
- Distinguish between the different jurisdictions in the UK as well as other common law jurisdictions as regards domestic legal responses to organised crime
- Engage critically with the work of leading scholars in the area, as well as assessing their own written work
- Use theoretical insights to identify and explain certain trends in responding to organised crime
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Reading List
| Liz Campbell, Organised Crime and the Law (Hart 2014) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
At the end of this course it is expected that students will be able to
- work and research independently
- evaluate and synthesise relevant scholarship as well as their own work
- communicate information effectively, both orally and in written form
- present arguments in written form through IT
- present an argument for or against a proposition in a dispassionate manner
- think critically and make critical judgements on the relative and absolute merits of particular arguments and solutions
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| Special Arrangements |
n/a |
| Keywords | organised crime,criminal law,transnational crime,money laundering |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Elizabeth Campbell
Tel: (0131 6)50 2050
Email: |
Course secretary | Ms Karin Bolton
Tel: (0131 6)50 2022
Email: |
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