Crime / Criminal Justice
The LSE Law Department pioneered the study and
teaching of criminology in the British Isles, when
Hermann Mannheim was appointed to the School in
1935. Mannheim had been a distinguished judge in
Germany, and taught criminal law at the University
of Berlin, before becoming a refugee from Hitler in
1934. His approach has been seminal in many ways in
the School, and beyond that in academic criminal law
and criminology. He was a forerunner of the projects
of uniting empirical social science and doctrinal
scholarship, bringing to bear a multi-disciplinary
analysis. He was concerned with contributing to the
development of policy, as well as criticising
constructively when necessary. He pioneered
comparative study of crime and criminal justice. His
legacy lives on in the LSE Mannheim Centre for
Criminology, founded in 1990, which brings together
the research and teaching of the Law Department with
a rich array of distinguished scholars in the field,
in the Departments of Social Policy, Sociology, and
Psychology. Fuller details of the Mannheim Centre's
activities can be found on its
website . Members of the Law Department and the
Mannheim Centre have been heavily involved in the editing and writing of The
Oxford Handbook of Criminology, the leading text in the subject, which has just
been published in its fourth edition by Oxford University Press. Professors Peay,
Redmayne, Reiner, Dr Melissaris, Dr Ramsay and Dr
Hinton have published many texts and papers in the
areas of criminal law theory, comparative study of
criminal justice, mentally disordered offenders,
evidence, criminal procedure, policing, media and
crime, political economy of crime and criminal
justice policy. The Department's teaching and
scholarship in criminal law is informed by this
criminological and social science expertise, as it
is by engagement with other disciplinary resources
such as legal and political philosophy. Several of
the Department's public international lawyers have
special interests in International Criminal Law,
notably Dr Chaloka Beyani. They are
supervising several PhD students who are conducting
research on aspects of international criminal law
(see
Public International law). The Department runs a
Criminal Law and Social Theory Project, which has
monthly work in progress seminars, currently
organised by Peter Ramsay. There
is a
monthly programme of distinguished outside speakers
organised by the
Mannheim Centre in conjunction with the
British Society of Criminology. The Department
is also closely linked with the
Centre for Human Rights, and its Director
Professor Conor Gearty and several of his colleagues
are members of the Law Department.
Crime / Criminal Justice for Undergraduates
Our undergraduate (LLB) courses include:-
Crime / Criminal Justice for Postgraduates
Crime specialisations as part of the LLM programme include:-
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Corporate and Financial Crime
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Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Criminal Justice Policy
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Criminal Procedure and Evidence
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Crime and Society
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International Criminal Law
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Mental Health Law
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Policing and Police Powers
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Psychology and Crime
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Regulation: Legal and Political Aspects
LLM students may also take options from the MSc Programmes in Criminal Justice Policy, and Crime, Control and Globalisation.
Research students in criminology or criminal justice also attend SO502 Research Seminar on Sociology of Crime and Deviance.
Click here for further information about the LLM Specialism in Criminology and Criminal Justice.
Crime / Criminal Justice : Monographs
Leading monographs and textbooks by current members of faculty:-
J.Peay (ed.) Criminal Justice and the Mentally Disordered
Aldershot, Ashgate International Library 1998.
J Peay (ed.) (with Nigel Eastman)
Law without Enforcement: Integrating Mental Health and Justice.
Hart Publishing 1998
J.Peay Decisions and Dilemmas: Working With Mental Health Law
Hart Publishing 2003.
J.Peay (ed.) Seminal Issues in Mental Health Law. Aldershot,
Ashgate 2005.
M.Redmayne Expert Evidence and Criminal Justice Oxford
University Press 2001.
M.Redmayne (with A.Ashworth)
The Criminal Process 3rd Ed. Oxford University Press 2005.
R.Reiner The Politics of the Police 3rd Ed Oxford University
Press 2000.
R.Reiner (ed. With M.Maguire and R.Morgan) The Oxford Handbook of
Criminology 4th Ed. Oxford University Press 2007.
R.Reiner Law and Order: An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and
Control Polity Press 2007.
