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SYLLABUS
Criminal Law, with Special Focus on Economic Crime, basic course , 7,5 ECTS Credits
 
COURSE CATEGORY   Fristående kurs
MAIN FIELD OF STUDY   Commercial and Business Law - ARE
SUBJECT AREA  
  COURSE CODE   747G09
AIM OF THE COURSE
On completion of the course, the student should be able to
- use basic knowledge about and understanding of general criminal law,
- use good knowledge and demonstrate understanding of the parts of criminal law that concerns economic values, both regarding general criminal law and certain parts of the special criminal law,
- identify and analyse different courses of events from a penal law perspective,
- test both objective and subjective criminal prerequisites on concrete cases,
- reflect on positions regarding criminal law penalty issues.
CONTENTS
The course is mainly devoted to general criminal law. This includes various concepts and principles, for example constitutional state concept, the legality principle, concepts of fault and responsibility, concepts of offence and offender, trial and preparation and accessory and omission. The remaining part of the course, about one third, is focused on rules concerning economic criminality. This includes tax offences, fraud, dishonesty crimes, debtor crimes, counterfeiting and insider dealing.
TEACHING
Teaching takes the form of lectures and exercises. Further, seminars and written assignments, to be solved in groups and/or individually may occur. The student is also expected to study independently, individually or in groups.
EXAMINATION
The course is examined through written and individual examination. Occurs seminars and written assignments are they part of the examination.

Students failing an exam covering either the entire course or part of the course two times are entitled to have a new examiner appointed for the reexamination.

Students who have passed an examination may not retake it in order to improve their grades.
ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

GRADING
A grade of Pass with Credit, Pass or Fail is given for the course
CERTIFICATE
Course certificate is issued by the Faculty Board on request. The Department provides a special form which should be submitted to the Student Affairs Division.
COURSE LITERATURE
The course literature is decided upon by the department in question.
OTHER INFORMATION
Planning and implementation of a course must take its starting point in the wording of the syllabus. The course evaluation included in each course must therefore take up the question how well the course agrees with the syllabus.

The course is carried out in such a way that both men´s and women´s experience and knowledge is made visible and developed.
 
Criminal Law, with Special Focus on Economic Crime, basic course
Straffrätt, med särskild inriktning mot ekonomisk brottslighet, grundkurs
 
Department responsible
for the course or equivalent:
IEI - Department of Management and Engineering
           
Registrar No: 127/07-41   Course Code: 747G09      
    Exam codes: see Local Computer System      
Subject/Subject Area : Commercial and Business Law - ARE          
           
Level   Education level     Subject Area Code   Field of Education  
G1X   Basic level     ARE   JU  
The syllabus was approved by the Board of Faculty of Arts and Science 2007-03-16