Conceptualising Criminal Laws - LAWS8090
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:
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9235 or 5235 or 9285 or 5285 or 9210 or 9220 or 5750.
Excluded: CRIM2020
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course introduces students without a legal background to the key concepts and principles that underpin criminal laws in Australia, focussing particularly on the common law jurisdictions. It provides an important foundation for other courses offered in the Criminal Justice & Criminology Program.
Students will examine the way criminal responsibility attaches to certain behaviours,how that criminal responsibility is processed via the agencies of the State, and, finally, the disposition of offences by way of sentencing.
The course provides a critical examination of the elements of major substantive criminal offences and defences, within the wider historical, social and political context.
Main Topics
Students will examine the way criminal responsibility attaches to certain behaviours,how that criminal responsibility is processed via the agencies of the State, and, finally, the disposition of offences by way of sentencing.
The course provides a critical examination of the elements of major substantive criminal offences and defences, within the wider historical, social and political context.
Main Topics
- Sources of Criminal Law
- Criminal Procedure
- Substantive Offences (selected)
- Defences to Criminal Liability (selected)
- Sentencing and Punishment
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