Fall 2013  |  SOC 4161 Section 001: Criminal Law in American Society (16733)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 25
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Purposes of criminal law and of principles of criminal liability, justification, and excuse. Applications to law of criminal homicide, sexual assault, drugs, and crimes against property, public order, and morals.
Class Description:
What's criminal law and what's it good for? Should we punish people only for what they do? or for what they might do? or even sometimes for who they are? What are the justifications and excuses for committing crimes? Topics: elements of crime that the prosecution has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt; accomplices; criminal attempts; defenses of justification (self-defense, defense of home) and defenses of excuse (insanity, age); criminal homicide; criminal sexual conduct. Read and discuss actual cases edited for non lawyers. Intensive class discussion. For upper division undergraduates, all majors.
Grading:
10% Class Participation
90% Other Evaluation Other Grading Information: weekly exams covering reading and discussion
Exam Format:
40%, short answer quiz on each week's assigned reading (no notes or books allowed); 20%, analysis of week's assigned cases (take home); 40%, reaction essay based on the day's discussion topic (open book and notes)
Class Format:
15% Lecture
85% Discussion
Workload:
35 Pages Reading Per Week
13 Homework Assignment(s)
13 Quiz(zes)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16733/1139
Past Syllabi:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/jbs_SOC4161_Fall2020.docx (Fall 2020)
http://classinfo.umn.edu/syllabi/jbs_SOC4161_Fall2018.docx (Fall 2018)
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 August 2011

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