Criminal Law Reflective Essay

Criminal law; I told my students that I teach in the Human Rights Education module that ‘refugees are like people like us’. A student in the class stated ‘if he was in a position of a refugee he would see noway out and would commit crime’. I feel the same way about criminals. I am interested in criminal law as I have compassion for the ‘Criminal’, guilty or not. I believe I feel like this as I have experience with a ‘dark side of life’ and I believe there should be no hierarchy of people in life, and no judgement. I want to see justice achieved. I want to view the respect for criminals in achieving a fair trial as a right to a fair trial is a human right. The safety of the nation is of corse at the forefront of criminal law, this is an area I want to be …show more content…
In Ireland, teachers have an interest in and enthusiasm for teaching HRE, but are ill-equipped with the requisite knowledge and understanding necessary for providing HRE to an extent compliant with the demands of the international human rights framework. It becomes apparent that in the absence of relevant personal knowledge concerning the human rights regime and protection mechanisms, teachers in Ireland and I believe in the US cannot be educating about human rights in any systematic or detailed way, therefore Ireland cant be using Article 2(2) method of teaching. In Sturthers article the analysis of existing national research carried out in Ireland and the US through the lens of Article 2(2)’s tripartite framework not only enables clearer comparison to be made between the educational regimes, but also offers states a useful means of identifying and addressing the most obvious and problematic gaps in their HRE provision. I intend to pursue my human rights teaching as it is an area that many people still do not know about especially children. HRE. The United Nations is a place I inspire to work in and is a reason why I want to go to