Kannur University was established in 1996 to provide development of higher education in Kasaragod, Kannur, and Wayanad districts of Kerala, India.


LLM Syllabus

Course Code

First Semester
SLS C 001
SLS C 002
SLS C 003
SLS E 001
Grade Point Average

Second semester
SLS C 004
SLS C 005
SLS C 006
SLS E 002
Grade Point Average

Third Semester
SLS C 007
SLS C 008
SLS C 009
SLS C 010
SLS E 003
Grade Point Average

Fourth Semester
SLS C 011
SLS C 012
SLS C 013
SLS C 014

Kannur University LLM Syllabus
1. The Concept of Law
Concept of Law - Theories of Law - Positivism and Law - Approach of Realists -Sociological
theories - natural Law - American realism - Kelsen's pure theory of Law -Economic analysis
of law - Rawl's theory - Marxian approach to law -Law and morals.
2. Law, Justice & Society
Community and the law - Caste as a decisive factor - Religion as a decisive factor -language
as a decisive factor - Non-discrimination on the ground of caste - Protective discrimination:
Scheduled castes, Tribes and Backward classes - Reservation -Statutory Commissions,
Statutory Provisions.
3. Law as an Instrument of Social Change
Impact of colonization and the introduction of common law system and institutions in India -
Social Process and Social Change - Legislation as a factor of social change -Welfare
legislations - Land reforms - Constitutional debate on the right to property -Social organs of
law and legal institutions.
4. Women, Children & Law
Crimes against women - Gender injustice and its various forms - Empowerment of Women -
Constitutional and other legal provisions - Women's Commission - Child labour - Sexual
exploitation - Adoption and related problems.
5. Modernization and the Law
Modernization of social institutions through law - Industrial and agrarian reforms -Impact of
industrialization on environment - Reforms of court process - Criminal law - Civil Law -
Concept of gramanyayalayas - Treat to state regulations - Causes and care.

1. Introduction
Fundamental principles of criminal law - Criminal conduct - Actus Reus - Mens Rea - Mens
Rea in Indian Penal Code - Actus Reus and Mens Rea in statutory offences -Motive and
Intention - Mens rea and fault - Causation - Proximity - Foresight of consequences - Free will
- Recklessness - Negligence - Criminal responsibility -Principle of strict liability in Common
law and India - Principle of vicarious liability in common law and India - Corporate liability
- Joint liability - Common intention -Common object - Criminal omissions - Knowledge,
belief and culpability - Transfer of malice and criminal responsibility.
2. Inchoate Offences and Exemption from Liability
Inchoate offences - Attempt - Abetment - Incitement - Conspiracy - Excuse from criminal
responsibility - Ignorance of law not an excuse - Capacity of committing offence -
Intoxication - Insanity - Infancy - Mistake - Compulsion - Consent -Necessity - Duress -
Coercion - Automatism - Private defence - Provocation.
3. Criminal Justice
Criminal law and justice - Comparative study of the criminal justice in U.S., U.K. and India -
Police powers and criminal justice - Arrest - Search and seizure -Detention - Confinement -
Interrogation - Interrogation through scientific methods -Legal aid - Medical aid - Forensic
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aid - Bail - Collecting evidence - Confession -Fair trial - Appeal - Speedy justice - Informing
accusation and presuming innocence - Providing legal assistance - Against self incrimination
- Against double jeopardy -Rights of prisoners - Sentencing and punishment.
4. Miscarriages of Justice in the Criminal Justice Process
Miscarriages of justice - Meaning - Causes - Fault in police investigation - Problems in trial
process - Inefficiency of prosecution and defence lawyers - Problems in the appreciation of
evidence - Problems in sentencing process - Judicial discretion in sentencing - Government
misconduct - Faulty forensic science - Judges lack of knowledge in scientific and
technological disciplines.

1. Criminology - Scope and importance - Nature of Criminology - Criminology as a science -
Principal divisions of Criminology - Sociological and environmental approaches to
criminology - Criminal behavior - Radical criminology - Criminology and Realism - Indian
concept of Criminology.
2. Causation of Crime - in General - Biological, Geographical, Psychiatric, Sociological,
Environmental, Anatomical, Ecological, Social Disorganization etc -Personality as per
Hootan's view - Sheldon's view on criminality - Donald Tale's view - Theory of causation.
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3. Criminological Theories - Criteria for evaluating theories - Types of criminological theories -
Difference and Rational choice theories - Modern difference theory -Routine activities theory
- Biological theories - Psychological theories -Psychoanalytic theory- Personality theory -
Social learning theory - Social Banding and control theory - Sutherland's differential
Association theory - Reiss's and Lye's theories of internal and external conflict - Reckless
Containment theory - Labeling theory - Braithwaite's theory - Conflict theory - Marxist and
critical theories -Feminist theories - Tittles control balance theory - Developmental and life
course theories - Individualistic theories - Evolutionary theories - Merton's strain theory
-Moffitt's life theory - Course persistent/adolescence - Sociological theory of crime.
4. The School of Criminology - pre-classical school of criminology - The classical school - Neo- classical school - Positive school - Clinical school of criminology -Sociological school of
criminology - Cesare Lombroso Eursico ferai - raffacle Garafa;p - Gabrid tarde - The new
criminology.
5. Developmental criminology - critical perspective in crime and criminology - White color
crime- sensual offences - Aleoholim, Drug addition and crime - Peace maling criminology -
Trend of violent crime s-post -modernist criminology.

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Kannur University
Thavakkara Civil Station P.O.,
Kannur, Kerala 670002
Phone: 0497 271 5335

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