Module 7: Legal Knowledge and Procedural Understanding

Course Description

The Module is dedicated to the students of law, social work, security sciences, pedagogy, and psychology. They have to learn the key principle on the notion of the emerging adulthood, international and national legal protection of the rights of the emerging adults inmates, work with the them in the correctional system institutions, the role of the judicial institutions.

The students will have theoretical classes in order to learn key legal principles and the most important international and national legal acts. They will also study case-study regarding the criminal cases against the emerging adult offenders as well as the case-study regarding the work with the emerging adults in the correctional facilities. The students will get the opportunity to discuss with the officials and the employees from the correctional system as well as judicial institutions. They will check their theoretical knowledge through the simulation of the criminal cases against the emerging adults. Class discussions, essays, and final exam will be the methods for assessment of the knowledge but also for the assessment of the students’ attitudes and the way they acquire knowledge.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this module, learners will be able to:

  1. Identify key legal principles regarding the notion of the emerging adulthood, the international and constitutional protection of inmates’ rights, the legal position of the emerging adults in the correctional system, the legal (substantial and procedural) aspects of the work with the emerging adults in the correctional systems, as well as the relevant case studies.
  2. Apply legal knowledge to guarantee the fair and legal treatment of the inmates as well as to achieve their rehabilitation and resocialization.
  3. Implement legal regulation (international acts, constitutional provisions, laws, other legal acts as well as the case study) in the work with the emerging adults in the correctional system to achieve guarantee of their human rights as well as their meaningful and efficient treatment.
  4. Develop legal knowledge on the issues regarding legal position of the emerging adults in the correctional system, the legal acts which regulate their position, the institutions for the implementation of the legal acts, the procedures on the work with the emerging adults, as well as the consciousness on the importance, implementation and improvement of the legal framework which regulates the position of the emerging adults in the correctional system.
  5. Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the legal provisions on the position and work with the emerging adults in the correctional system from the comparative law, positive law, and sociological aspects.
  6. Evaluate the case studies and practices based on the legal acts and understand the influences of the latter on the former.