CRJU202-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Criminal Law for Criminal Justice

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

General principles of criminal law (liability for offences, overview of party liability, inchoate offences and general defences).

CRJU202 is designed to provided BCJ students, not also studying for a Law degree, with a satisfactory level of knowledge and understanding of the principles of criminal law necessary for persons working in, or with, the criminal justice system.

Learning Outcomes

  • A successful student will, by the end of the course, be able to:
  •  Demonstrate an understanding of the general principles of criminal law;
  •  Demonstrate an understanding of how these principles and features will be applied in individual cases;
  •  Engage in critical analysis of issues where the current law poses particular difficulties for individuals concerned with the criminal justice process and for criminal justice professionals.
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

      Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

      Employable, innovative and enterprising

      Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Prerequisites

Either CRJU150 or LAWS150

Restrictions

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 13:00 - 15:00 E5 Lecture Theatre
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
Workshop A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 11:00 - 12:00 Rehua 009
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Shea Esterling

Lecturer

Chat Le Nguyen

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Quiz 15 Mar 2024 10%
In-Class Test 28 Mar 2024 40%
Final Exam 50%


The assessment may consist of a quiz, test and exam.

The assessment will be confirmed in the first week of lectures.

Textbooks / Resources

Recommended Reading

Finn, Jeremy et al; Adams on criminal law ; 2020 student edition; Thomson Reuters, 2020.

Simester, A. P. , Brookbanks, Warren., Boister, Neil; Principles of criminal law ; 5th ed; Thomson Reuters New Zealand Ltd, 2019.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $946.00

International fee $4,850.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Minimum enrolments

This course will not be offered if fewer than 20 people apply to enrol.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

All CRJU202 Occurrences

  • CRJU202-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025