LLAW315-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Mental Health and Criminal Justice

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course equips students with a comprehensive understanding of the impact of mental health on every aspect of the criminal justice system. The course considers the changing landscape of mental health attitudes, policy and legislation, and the importance of bicultural competence and evidence-based policy and law making in this context. Students will gain valuable knowledge and skills regarding the role of mental health in the explanation of crime. In addition. students will learn about the roles of the various agencies and experts involved where the mental health of offenders, victims and people who work in the criminal justice field are concerned.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 15:00 - 17:00 A3 Lecture Theatre
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator

For further information see Faculty of Law Head of Department

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.

For further information see Faculty of Law .

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