Department: Bachelor of Law
Module Description: This module covers the core elements of certain offences against property. It is designed to provide students, undertaking this module, with the necessary understanding needed to identify offences against property and the implications of criminal acts and as a result a better understanding of these offences theoretically and practically. Additionally, this module aims at solving realistic issues and problems relying on the applicable legislation and case-law. Indeed, the offences against property module contains a number of topics. These topics are: theft, robbery, burglary, motor vehicle theft, handling stolen property, possession of stolen property, extortion and unlawful use of others’ property, fraud, deception and other forms of fraud related offences, cheque related offences, breach of trust and embezzlement, forgery, vandalism, damage to property, arson and money laundry.
The module coordinator will provide students with mandatory texts on UAE Law prepared purposefully for this particular module.
Janet Loveless, Mischa Allen and Caroline Derry, Complete Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (6th edn, Oxford UP 2018)
Nicola Monaghan, Criminal Law Directions (3rd edn, Oxford UP 2014)
Andrew Ashworth and Jeremy Horder, Principles of Criminal Law (7th edn, Oxford UP 2013)
Jonathan Herring, Criminal Law (Macmillan International Higher Education 2011)
Mohammad S. Namor, Explanation Of The Penal Law Private Section: Part II Crimes Fund (Arabic ed., 6th ed., Daralthaqafa 2018).
Kamel Al-Saeed, Explanation of Penal Code: Crimes Against Fund (Arabic edn, 3rd edn, Daralthaqafa 2014)
