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LAW 201 Criminal Law

200 levelLaw10 topics

LAW 201 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. General introduction and purpose of criminal law
  2. The concept of crime
  3. History and sources of Nigerian criminal law
  4. Elements of an offence: actus reus and mens rea
  5. Classification of offences
  6. General principles of criminal responsibility
  7. Defences to criminal liability
  8. Parties to an offence
  9. Preliminary/inchoate offences
  10. Offences against the person

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

General introduction and purpose of criminal law

This topic introduces criminal law as the body of rules by which the state defines offences, prescribes punishment, and protects public order. For exam purposes, you must master what criminal law is, how it differs from other branches of law, and the main purposes it serves in society, because these ideas form the foundation for all later topics in criminal liability and punishment.

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