LAWS 4307
Medical Criminal Law Issues
Legal-medical issues, conflicts and relationships in the field of social control. Topics include mental disorder and criminal liability, diversion of offenders to civil commitment in hospital, insanity, automatism, fitness to stand trial, prediction of dangerousness, regulation of psychoactive drugs.
2026
Topics
- Overview of Forensics & WC
- Chris Fabricant & William Carrington, “The Shifted Paradigm: Forensic Science's
- Wrongful Convictions” (2009) 95 Virginia Law Review EXCERPT ONLY pp. 3-23.
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): LAWS 2908 , CRCJ 3001 , or CRCJ 3002 and LAWS 2301 , LAWS 2302 and fourth-year Honours standing. Seminars three hours a week.