Course information

Introduction to Criminal Justice Studies is a foundational course in your studies of Criminal Justice and should assist you as a first-year student to conceptualise and contextualise the various components of the Criminal Justice System. The literature used in the course is mostly imported, while the course will be delivered with an emphasis on the Namibian Criminal Justice system. It provides an examination of the Namibian system of Criminal Justice, its agencies, and the processes that constitute it. The course content therefore focuses on the various functions of its sub-systems, i.e., Police, Prosecution, Judiciary, and Corrections, against the backdrop of the various approaches to explaining "crime.”