LCJS 1200 - CRIMINAL LAW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Effective Spring 2022, this course replaces ADMJ 1400, LEGLST 1140. INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL LAW. If you have previously taken ADMJ 1400, LEGLST 1140, contact your advisor about course repeat limitations/rules. This course acquaints students with the basic principles of criminal law derived from the English common law heritage and from more recent statutory penal code revisions in the American states. It examines criminal law in terms of what conduct is defined as criminal and what punishments are prescribed. Students will learn and apply the principles of criminal liability, theories of punishment, and the definition of specific offenses. Students will be encouraged to develop their own criminal law imagination as they engage with the course material.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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