LAWS6012 - Contemporary Challenges for Criminal Law

Objectives

• Examine crime, criminal law and its structures and institutions of control.
• Assess criminal law within specific and comparative, modern social contexts.
• Study the position, practice and potential of the criminal law within changing economic, political and cultural contexts, including globalisation.

Content

Criminal law and its structures; institutions of control; criminal law within specific and comparative, modern social contexts; position, practice and potential of criminal law with changing economic, political and cultural contexts.

Session

Semester 1 2009
Wednesday Evenings, 6-8pm

The timetable is subject to frequent changes. Please refer to the latest version of the Postgraduate Timetable.

Assessment

• 1 x Class Presentation
• 1 x Research Essay
• 1 x Take-Home Exam

Courses this unit is available in

Master of Laws | Graduate Diploma in Law | Master of Criminology | Graduate Diploma in Criminology