Teaching Criminal Law in a New Way

For professional educators it has been evident for a long time that in current situation it is not possible to teach criminal law using old approaches as well as any other branch of law. The dynamics of the legislative process is too extensive, excessive amount of new legislation, and more regulations that need to be taken into account in law enforcement. Any expert, and much less a beginner, can just lose guidance in this abundance of material. In this context, the task of the teacher and the educational task today is not to coach you students to know the legislation, but to train them how to navigate in the constantly changing legislative field, train them as fast as possible to find correct answers to the questions raised. The review notes that, despite a huge array of educational literature on criminal law books, it is difficult to find a few worth paying attention to. The thing is that to write a modern tutorial is not as easy as it might seem. People face a problem you have to solve based on the entire array of legislative regulation. It means that before dealing with this array you must realize the problem. This is the only way to find the right decision under the law. This tutorial is definitely built on this principle: the problem is formulated and possible ways of finding a solution are identified. The review specifically notes that all the chapters of the textbook begin with the words "topical issues". This alone leads the reader to search for solutions to these problems. At the beginning of the search these are a few ways and only at the end you face the one that leads you to the desired result. Besides, the result may be unexpected for the author. Still a negative result is also a result. The review highlights the most interesting moments of the various sections of the tutorial: principles of criminal law, offences against property, computer crime, etc. The tutorial will be of interest to all the lecturers specializing in this field.

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