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Butterworths’ Company <strong>Law</strong> Handbook (latest ed)Palgrave Macmillan, Core Statutes on Company <strong>Law</strong> (latest ed)Routledge, Company <strong>Law</strong> Statutes (latest ed)Advice to candidates:Prior knowledge <strong>of</strong> company law would be an advantage. Candidates who do not have this should read an introductorybook (e.g. Davies, Introduction to Company <strong>Law</strong>) before starting the course.PAPER 11. CRIMINAL JUSTICE: PLAYERS AND PROCESSESEvaluating the criminal justice system, including comparative materials. The role <strong>of</strong> discretion within the system.Contemporary issues in criminal justice: including race and gender issues; questions <strong>of</strong> fairness and justice.Key players: Police; Prosecutors; Defence lawyers; Magistrates; Juries; Judges; Prison and probation.Key processes explored by looking at theory, law and practice. For example, youth justice, including restorative justice;Police powers; Diversion: the growth in non-court sanctions; The trial process; Criminal penalties; Managing sentences:prisons, probation and privatisation; Parole, early release and recalls to prison.READINGTextbooks:Ashworth, Sentencing and Criminal Justice (4th ed 2005)Ashworth and Redmayne, The Criminal Process (3rd ed 2005)Cavadino and Dignan, The Penal System: An Introduction (4th ed 2007)Easton and Piper, Sentencing and Punishment: The Quest for Justice (2nd ed 2008)Padfield, The Criminal Justice Process (4th ed 2008)Sanders and Young, Criminal Justice (3rd ed 2006)Further Reading:Auld, Review <strong>of</strong> the Criminal Courts <strong>of</strong> England and Wales (2001)Gelsthorpe and Morgan, Handbook <strong>of</strong> Probation (2007)Gelsthorpe and Padfield (eds), Discretion: its uses in criminal justice and beyond (2003)Hudson, Understanding Justice. An Introduction to Ideas, Perspectives and Controversies in Modern Penal Theory (2nded 2003)Maguire, Morgan and Reiner (eds), The Oxford Handbook <strong>of</strong> Criminology (4th ed 2007)Von Hirsch, Ashworth and Roberts (eds), Principled Sentencing: Readings on Theory and Policy (3rd ed 2009)Padfield (ed), Who to release? Parole, fairness and criminal justice (2007)Zedner, Criminal Justice (2004)Many <strong>of</strong>ficial and un<strong>of</strong>ficial Reports and other documents.Students will be directed to specialist reading for individual topics.PAPER 12. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY86

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