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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Postgraduate
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Units of Credit: 6
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Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
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Description
The course is a postgraduate elective. It is available to postgraduate psychology students. The course examines systematically and in-depth major principles of Australian law governing arrest and search and seizure, matters relevant to the Accused, the Prosecution, the Judge and the Jury and trial procedure and an introduction to evidence law. As well as investigating many practical problems in applying the law, the course makes a sustained attempt to assist students to obtain a broad understanding of the framework of pre-trial and trial procedure.
Recommended Prior Knowledge
The course is a postgraduate elective. It is available to postgraduate psychology students.
Course Objectives
- To assist students to develop a functional and contextual knowledge of major areas of interest to psychologists that concern criminal law principles and issues, court procedure and the aspects of evidence law in an historical and socio-political context
- To assist students to develop further their capacities for disciplined analysis of facts and critical analytical skills concentrating on the legal principles as they affect criminal law, procedural law and evidence law
- To stimulate students to examine the criminal and procedural law in a social and historical context. This will involve comparing the position and power of the proponents in the criminal trial, noting the roles that each proponent undertakes and the way in which procedural and substantive law might be utilized by some of these proponents. Students should thus develop a critical understanding of and sensitivity to the way the criminal law, procedural law and evidence law operate in practice.
Main Topics
- An Introduction to issues associated with policing, arrest, and search
- The accused, the prosecution, the judge and the jury
- An introduction to evidence law
- Experts as witnesses, the accused and limitations on evidence - tendency and coincidence evidence and character of the accused
Assessment
| Class participation |
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20% |
| Court report questionnaire |
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20% |
| Court report essay or Research essay |
3,500 - 4,000 words |
60% |
Course Texts
Prescribed
Course Materials are available from the University Bookshop. Resources
Course Materials are available from the University Bookshop.
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