Broader Social Context as a Lens for Learning: Teaching Criminal Law
Disciplines: the lenses of learning, Kathryn Coleman and Adele Flood (eds). Chapter 2. Common Ground Publishing: 2013.
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Broader Social Context as a Lens for Learning: Teaching Criminal Law
Disciplines: the lenses of learning, Kathryn Coleman and Adele Flood (eds). Chapter 2. Common Ground Publishing: 2013., UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2014-50
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Abstract
This chapter considers how best to teach criminal law in broader social contexts and beyond a focus on positivist doctrinal accounts. It provides examples of how broader social science research could be included within a criminal law curriculum.
Keywords: criminal law, pedagogy, law and society, positivism, social sciences
JEL Classification: I21, K10, K14
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Steel, Alex and Schwartz, Melanie, Broader Social Context as a Lens for Learning: Teaching Criminal Law (October 2, 2014). Disciplines: the lenses of learning, Kathryn Coleman and Adele Flood (eds). Chapter 2. Common Ground Publishing: 2013., UNSW Law Research Paper No. 2014-50, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2484391
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