Sentencing: Law, Policy and Practice - LAWS8201
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Pre-requisite: Academic Program must be 9200 or 9210 or 9230 or 5740 or 9285 or 5285 or 9235 or 5235 or 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: JURD7601
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
LLM Specialisation
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- Introduce the general principles of Australian sentencing law
- Provide the intellectual foundation for independent research into specific aspects of Australian and comparative sentencing law
- Develop the capacity to analyse and criticise legal and political arguments regarding sentencing in Australia
- Identify and understand likely changes to the Australian sentencing system
Main Topics
- The jurisprudence regulating the individual sentencing discretion
- The principles governing the adjustment of the outcome of the sentencing decision in response to features of the broader sentencing system
- The legal framework and debate over the techniques for informing sentencing decision-making
- Sentencing theory and policy
Assessment
| General class participation | Participation in class discussion | 10% |
| Assigned class participation | 5 - 10 minute talk | 10% |
| Research assignment | At least 5,000 words | 80% |
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Note: A pass mark (40/80 or higher) is required for the research assignment in order to pass the course.
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