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Criminal Fraud and Dishonesty - LAWS3478

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Pre-requisite: Criminal Laws (LAWS1022/JURD7122) OR Criminal Law 2 (JURD7111/LAWS1011); Co-requisite: Resolving Civil Disputes (LAWS2371/JURD7271) OR Litigation (JURD7211/LAWS2311). Excluded: LAWS8994 & JURD7594.

Excluded: JURD7378, JURD7594, LAWS8994

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Are identity fraud and illegal music downloading merely modern versions of the core criminal offences of theft and fraud? This course examines the law of fraud in Australia (including theft, forgery, dishonest deception and defrauding) from legal, historical and sociological perspectives and evaluates whether the law appropriately deals with modern forms of fraud, including digital forms of fraud and theft. It considers the impact of fraud on business and the way in which legal responses to fraud have effects on the wider community. NSW and Commonwealth offences are considered in detail with comparative analysis of approaches in other jurisdictions.

Recommended Prior Knowledge

None

Course Objectives

The specific aims of the course are:

To analyse the elements of the theft and fraud offences in Australia, with an emphasis on NSW and Commonwealth offences - in particular those not discussed in general criminal courses
To examine these laws in light of new forms of intellectual property theft and identity frauds To examine the historical development of property and dishonesty offences in order to develop a framework in which to explain the contours of the current law and the significance of any breaks from the historical model of criminalisation
To consider the factors that contribute to the forms and prevalence of fraud from industry, social and psychological perspectives

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