Направление: «Юриспруденция»

1 Курс 1 семестр

1. What steps can society take to cope with crime?

2. What trends can be observed in the development of criminology?

3. What methods and techniques are applied in criminology?

4. In what other spheres of life can criminology find a useful application?

5. What is Cesare Lombroso famous for?

6. How did he try to relate criminal behavior to a person’s appearance?

7. What was Lombroso’s contribution to the development of penal system?

8. What concepts formed the basis of the earliest criminological theories?

9. What was Montesquieu’s approach to causes of crime?

10. What views of crime predominated in the 19^th century?

11. How did criminological theories develop in the 20^th century?

12. What is the relationship between the mental and emotional state of a person and his or her inclinations to crime?

13. What are the latest views on the causes of crime?

14. Why did ancient punishment have to be painful?

15. What was the purpose of making punishments public?

16. What punishments were the most common in the East?

17. How did punishment reflect social status?

18. Why was capital punishment imposed so frequently in ancient societies?

19. Why were blacks punished more severely than whites in early American colonies?

20. When did European thinkers begin considering the alternatives to death penalty?

21. How have the attitudes towards capital punishment changed in Britain since the abolition of death penalty in 1965?

22. Is imprisonment effective for revolutionaries and terrorists? Why?

23. How have Americans treated the problem of death penalty?

24. What factors may hamper fair administration of justice in capital cases?

1 Курс 2 семестр

1. What are the main sources of the British law?

2. Who is responsible for making laws in Britain?

3. What is the difference between criminal and civil law?

4. What is the most common type of law court in England and Wales?

5. What are the types of British courts?

6. Where are the appeals from magistrate courts heard?

7. What is the highest court in England and Wales?

8. What cases are referred to the European court of Justice?

9. What is the largest branch of legal profession in England and Wales?

10. What is the difference between a solicitor and a barrister?

11. What is the highest level of barristers in the UK?

12. Are the training and career development for solicitors and barristers the same?

13. How are judges trained?

14. How many jurors are there in a jury?

15. What kind of people can be chosen to a jury?

16. Are juries used in civil cases?

17. What is the most common type of the British court?

18. Are magistrates paid? Do they have legal training?

19. What do coroners deal with?

20. What do clerks in the court deal with?

21. What punishment can be imposed by magistrates courts?

22. Where do the cases go it the punishment is to be rather severe?

23. Why is it difficult to judge about the earliest laws?

24. Where and why did the first laws appear?

25. What issues did the early laws emphasize? Why?

26. Why do you think Hammurabi decided to have his laws carved into a pillar?

27. What spheres of human life were covered by Hammurabi’s code?

28. Why do you think people of different ranks were treated differently by Hammurabi’s code?

29. What does the ancient concept of law comprise?

30. Why were the first laws mainly attributed to divine powers?

31. What is the origin and the meaning of the word “draconian”?

32. How do you understand the concept of “natural law”?

33. What was Solon’s contribution to ancient law?

34. What were the two basic principles of the English system of government at the beginning of the 17^th century?

35. What provisions did the Magna Carta contain?

36. Who enjoyed the rights granted by the Magna Carta?

37. What events preceded the Bill of Rights?

38. How were the rights of the monarch limited by the Bill of Rights?

39. What civil rights were protected by the Bill of Rights?

40. What was the influence of the Bill of Rights on political thinking in America?

41. What efforts did Napoleon make to reorganize the diverse legal systems of France?

42. Did Napoleon draw up the whole code himself?

43. What was remarkable about Napoleon’s new code?

44. What were thee benefits of Napoleon’s code for the ordinary people?

45. Which countries throughout the world still use the elements of Napoleon’s code?

46. What measures can society take to cope with crime?

47. What trends can be observed in the development of criminology?

48. What methods and techniques are applied in criminology?

49. What concepts formed the basis of the earliest criminological theories?

50. What was Montesquieu’s approach to causes of crime?

51. What views on crime predominated in the 19^th century?

52. How did criminological theories develop in the 20^th century?

53. What are the latest views on the causes of crime?