This
course examines what conduct
society says is deserving of condemnation and punishment. It
includes detailed study of prohibited acts.
The object of this course is also that of
the incriminations and, through those, of the
values protected
by the criminal law, of the stakes of the criminal policy related to the
processes of incrimination, and of the principles that the creation of the
incriminations must respect. The principle of legality,
which
governs the production of the incriminations, will be in particular examined in
its various aspects, in the framework of the progressive displacement of the
definition of the criminal law out of the national borders.
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Determine the elements
of an offence in general;
Determine the principles
applicable in the qualification of offences;
Qualify the criminal acts
under the Rwandan criminal law;
Determine the specific
elements
of the main offences under the Rwandan criminal law.
- Module Team: Justine Gift Katushabe