LAW7043

Sentencing (6 points)

(LAW)

Leader: Professor Richard Fox

Offered:
City First semester 2005 (On-campus)

Synopsis:

Objectives: Students completing this course should have an understanding of the legal framework within which offenders against federal and state law in Victoria are sentenced. They will recognise the non-judicial, as well as the judicial elements of sentencing, the empirical and legal bases of sentencing practice, and will have gained an understanding of the different philosophical underpinnings of the sentencing system.

Assessment: Two written research assignments (3750 words each) (50%) or, in exceptional circumstances, one written research assignment (8000 words): 100%