SPECIAL NOTE:
Compulsory unit for students of Law; may be taken as a BSocSc(PoliceStudies) unit. (
LAW225 Criminal Law A and LAW226 Criminal Law B are a full year program and must be taken in the same calendar year).
OFFERINGS
Unit
Sem 1
Sem 2
Full Yr
Spring
Summer
Winter
LAW226
H
Key Semester Dates
Semester
Campus
Attendance
Note
Start Date
Census Date
Final WW Date*
End Date
Sem 2
H
On Campus
16-JUL-2012
10-AUG-2012
03-SEP-2012
20-OCT-2012
*The Final WW Date is the final date from which you can withdraw from the unit without academic penalty, however you will still incur a financial liability (see
Withdrawal dates explained for more information).
Criminal Law is a cornerstone of law students' education. It involves studying the detail of particular offences - including murder, rape, assault and drug trafficking - as well as certain defences, such as 'insanity' and self-defence. Underlying these topics is an analysis of what the criminal law calls
mens rea, or the guilty mind. Since the criminal laws studied are contained in Tasmanian and Australian legislation, the unit provides foundational skills in statutory interpretation, which are highly valued in various professional settings. Naturally the unit may provoke your sense of justice. This might particularly occur when - in the practical problem-solving exercises - you determine the guilt or innocence of fictitious characters involved in hypothetical scenarios. However, this unit equally invites you to consider the (a) the social context of crime and (b) ethical obligations of criminal lawyers.
WEIGHT:
12.5%
ASSESSMENT:
Tutorial participation (15%); Tutorial papers (10%); Research Exercise (Legislation) (5%); Semester 1 Multiple choice test (5%); Semester 1 (LAW225 Criminal Law A) closed-book exam (15%); Semester 2 (LAW226 Criminal Law B) 3-hr closed-book exam (50%).
TEACHING PATTERN: 3x 50-min lectures weekly (26 wks), 50-min tutorial fortnightly (24 wks) over the year for LAW225 and LAW226.
FLEXIBLE & ONLINE STUDY OPTIONS Note: Class attendance may still be required
Units are offered in attending mode unless otherwise indicated (that is attendance is required at the campus identified). A unit identified as offered by distance, that is there is no requirement for attendance, is identified with a nominal enrolment campus. A unit offered to both attending students and by distance from the same campus is identified as having both modes of study.
Campus - H Hobart, L Launceston, W Burnie. Study Centre - V Sydney, R Rozelle, P Beauty Point. Distance units may also have a campus identifier of I Isolated, N Interstate, O Overseas. Units delivered in Transnational Education (TNE) Programs have a campus identifier of A Hangzhou, F Fuzhou, G Shanghai, K KDU Malaysia, Q Kuwait or Y Hong Kong.
Special approval is required for enrolment into TNE Program units - campuses A, F, G, K, Q and Y click here for more information.
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