History of Criminal Law Course
This course explores the evolution of criminal law from early penalties to mass incarceration and reforms. It equips legal professionals with tools to analyse historical systems and develop effective modern policies for sentencing, prisons, and rehabilitation to tackle overcrowding, inequality, and recidivism.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course follows the development of punishment ideas from Enlightenment theories and early codes to prisons, rehabilitation, and current options. Learners will study major reforms, human rights effects, and global comparisons, while acquiring practical skills for legal-historical research, policy evaluation, and creating evidence-based reform proposals to solve modern issues like prison overcrowding, inequality, and repeat offending.
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Develop skills
- Penal evolution analysis: quickly trace shifts from corporal to carceral regimes.
- Human rights impact: assess how rights frameworks reshaped punishment and detention.
- Historical legal research: locate, read, and compare key criminal law sources fast.
- Policy design from history: turn past reforms into realistic, modern sentencing options.
- Concise reform briefs: draft clear, evidence-based proposals for justice ministries.
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