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2024 unit offering information will be available in November 2023
Unit description
Provides the student with an introduction to the Australian criminal justice system, together with the principles and major procedural stages of Australian criminal procedure. This will include issues concerning police powers of arrest, search, seizure and interrogation; bail; right to legal representation; committal proceedings; juries; sentencing; appeals; the role of crime victims and anti-terrorism legislation. The unit also examines how the criminal justice system treats traditionally disadvantaged groups, such as children and Australian Indigenous peoples.
Unit content
Module 1: Introducing the Australian Criminal Justice System in context
Module 2: Investigation of Crime
Module 3: Pre-Trial Process
Module 4: Detention, questioning, interview and the right to silence
Module 5: Post-trial procedure - sentencing
Module 6: First Nations people and children in the criminal justice system
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
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| 1 | identify and demonstrate knowledge of the major aspects of the Australian criminal justice system and how this system attempts to account for the interests of its key stakeholders – defendants, victims, the community and the state, crime control and individual liberty, and the interests of the key stakeholders |
| 2 | identify and be able to apply and analyse, in an effective manner, primary and secondary sources of criminal procedure law, including Internet resources, reports and visual media |
| 3 | recognise and analyse the general principles of criminal law theory and of criminal responsibility, and describe how power structures in society are reproduced in the criminal law and criminal justice system. |
| 4 | Assess how disadvantaged groups, such as Indigenous Australians and children, are treated by the Australian criminal justice system. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- identify and demonstrate knowledge of the major aspects of the Australian criminal justice system and how this system attempts to account for the interests of its key stakeholders – defendants, victims, the community and the state, crime control and individual liberty, and the interests of the key stakeholders
- identify and be able to apply and analyse, in an effective manner, primary and secondary sources of criminal procedure law, including Internet resources, reports and visual media
- recognise and analyse the general principles of criminal law theory and of criminal responsibility, and describe how power structures in society are reproduced in the criminal law and criminal justice system.
- Assess how disadvantaged groups, such as Indigenous Australians and children, are treated by the Australian criminal justice system.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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