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| 1411-7044-01 | Criminal Justice in Israel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Criminal Justice in Israel – Prof. Kenneth Mann
This course will focus on central characteristics of the criminal legal process in Israel. We will look at Israeli legal process in comparative perspective, using United States case law as a backdrop for identifying critical issues in criminal justice. The course will give special emphasis to a “downside-up” empirical view of how the legal process actually operates in police stations, prosecutors’ offices, the courts and in prisons. We will develop an empirical model of criminal justice, and compare it with law-in-the books. Emphasis will be given to the important differences in criminal justice for the poor as compared to the rich, and how those differences become evident at different stages of the criminal process, such as in plea bargaining, the conduct of criminal trials, sentencing and in appeals. Special attention will also be given to lawyers’ ethics in criminal defense representation and prosecutorial advocacy. We will also look at use of administrative detention in matters related to national security offenses, refugee entry and illegal immigration. Overall we will try to identify distinctive aspects of the Israeli legal process as compared to the American legal process.
Grade: Papers 20%, Take Home Exam 80%. Extra credit will be given for productive class.
קורס מקוצר, יינתן באנגלית. לא ניתן להמיר ציון.