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Contract: covenant and debt; assumpsit for misfeasance, non-feasance, and debt; consideration; privity; theemergence of contractual ideas in the nineteenth century.3. Criminal lawThe history of criminal liability: criminal procedure; punishment; development of substantive criminal law; homicide.4. PropertyThe history of the law of real property: tenure and ‘feudalism’; services and incidents of tenure; inheritance; estates;the real actions; terms of years; copyhold; ejectment; settlements.The history of trusts: medieval uses; the Statute of Uses 1536; un-executed uses after the Statute.The following topics will be considered in outline only: detinue, trover and conversion; account; quasi-contract;defamation; nuisance; executory interests and perpetuities; the equity of redemption.No detailed knowledge will be required of the period before 1066.READINGGeneral:Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History (4th ed)Milsom, Historical Foundations of the Common Law (2nd ed)Ibbetson, A Historical Introduction to the Law of ObligationsSimpson, A History of the Land Law (2nd ed)Milsom, A Natural History of the Common LawBaker and Milsom, Sources of English Legal HistoryFor further reference:Plucknett, Concise History of the Common Law (5th ed)Holdsworth, History of English LawKiralfy, A Source Book of English LawAllen, Law in the Making (7th ed)Pollock and Maitland, The History of English Law before the time of Edward I (2nd ed re-issued 1968)Baker, Oxford History of the Laws of England, vol. VI, 1483-1558Palmer, English Law in the Age of the Black DeathSimpson, History of the Common Law of ContractMilsom, The Legal Framework of English FeudalismPAPER 23. CRIMINOLOGY, SENTENCING AND THE PENAL SYSTEM1. Historical Background: Recent developments in criminal justice and the penal system in England and Wales(excluding criminal trials and pre-trial procedure). Relationship of these developments to aspects of broader socialchange in late modernity.48
2. Patterns of crime, offending and victimisation (primarily in England and Wales, with international comparisons whereappropriate). Strengths and weaknesses of data sources and the role of the media in shaping interpretation of datasources.3. Theories and findings on pathways into crime at individual, family and community levels of analysis, and evidence onwhat is known about the causes and prevention of crime, and desistance from offending.4. Theories of punishment, and the law of sentencing: justifications for penal measures, especially desert, deterrence,incapacitation, rehabilitation, restorative justice and reparation. The efficacy of penal measures.5. How the sentencing and penal system works: sentencing law: theory, policy and practice, the discretion to prosecuteand alternative systems of intervention such as restorative justice.6. Sentencing provisions in practice: community penalties, prisons, parole.7. Dealing with identified groups of offenders: young offenders, dangerous and sex offenders, women offenders.8. Contemporary issues in criminal justice: race and gender issues relating to fairness and discrimination; the linkbetween politics and sentencing policy and practice.READINGMain Texts:Newburn, Criminology (2007)Easton and Piper, Sentencing and Punishment: The Quest for Justice (2nd ed 2008)Additional Reading:Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice (4th ed 2005)Becker, Outsiders: Studies in Sociology of Deviance (1963)Braithwaite, Crime, Shame and Reintegration (1990)Erikson, Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance (1966)Farrington et al., Criminal Careers up to age 50 and life success up to age 48: New findings from the Cambridge Study inDelinquency Development. Research Study 299. Home Office (2006)http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs06/hors299.pdfGelsthorpe and Padfield (eds), Exercising Discretion: Decision-Making in the Criminal Justice System and Beyond (2003)Gelsthorpe and Morgan (eds), Handbook of Probation (2007)von Hirsch and Ashworth, Proportionate Sentencing: Exploring the Principles (2005)Laub and Sampson, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives (2003)Liebling, assisted by Helen Arnold, Prisons and Their Moral Performance (2004)Maguire, Morgan and Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology (4th ed 2007)McGuire (ed), Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment: Effective Programmes and Policies to Reduce Reoffending (2002)Ramsbotham, Prisongate: The Shocking State of Britain’s Prisons and the Need for Visionary Change (2003)Sherman and Farrington et al, Evidence-Based Crime Prevention (2006)Tonry, Punishment and Politics: Evidence and Emulation in the Making of English Crime Control Policy (2004)Walker, Why Punish (1991)49
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Page 6 and 7: Faculty AdministrationFaculty Offic
Page 8 and 9: The Faculty of LawLaw has been stud
Page 10 and 11: The LLM Degree. This degree is awar
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Unger, Free Trade Reimagined (2007)
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Reiman, ‘Justice, Civilization, a
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RA Melikan, BA (Mich), JD, MA (Chi)
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BD Sloan, MA, LLM (Cantab); King’
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