On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:

1. Describe and analyse the general principles of criminal liability;
2. Distinguish between different offences relating to life, person and property
3. Apply substantive knowledge of criminal law to hypothetical factual scenarios
4. Engage with critiques of Irish criminal law
5. Suggest and appraise reforms of the law relating to issues covered in the module

Topics include an introduction to criminal law, the difference between civil and criminal law, the mental and physical components of criminal offences, homicide, non-fatal and theft offences.

Not applicable to this module.

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

Feedback will be given in lectures through quizzes and in-class discussion. Students are encouraged to avail of opportunities to discuss their ideas in lectures, as this can be a means of obtaining feedback from the lecturer and from peers. Tutorials form an important part of the teaching in this module. Students are expected to contribute to the discussion in tutorials and should see these discussions and debates as feedback opportunities. General feedback on the exam will be uploaded to Brightspace on the day provisional results are published, highlighting common issues in relation to each question on the exam. Students also have the opportunity of viewing their script after the publication of final results, and reading the comments of the examiner. After viewing their script students may schedule an appointment with the lecturer for further individual feedback.