Current problems in criminal law 415
Not offered in 1995
15 points * One 2-hour lecture per week and one 1-hour lecture per week * Clayton * Prerequisites: See section 3 of the faculty resolutions
This subject consists of an examination of selected contemporary problems in criminal law. The content of the subject varies in response to new developments in the criminal law. Proposals for change to criminal law and procedure emanating from Australian law reform bodies will be given prominence. Topics will be drawn from both the general part of the criminal law (for example automatism, insanity, intoxication, duress and entrapment); specific offences (for example obscenity, contempt, homicide and sexual offences); and issues such as the role of the jury, sentencing and the function of the psychiatrist in the criminal process. Students will be called upon to undertake independent research using the extensive resources of the criminal law and criminology collections in the law library and to present the findings in seminars.
Assessment
Two research assignments (4000 words each): 40% each * Class participation: 20%
Prescribed texts
Fox R G Materials on current problems in criminal law Faculty of Law, Monash U, 1994