School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Criminal Law I
  • Unit Code

    LAW1113
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Toby Matthew NISBET

Description

This unit introduces students to the basic concepts of criminal law. Students are guided to analyse elements of key offences. It will focus on The Criminal Code. Students will analyse the substantive areas of criminal law in order to gain insight and an ability to contextualize the way offences occur in broader socio-political contexts. Note: Students should complete LAW1600 Legal Writing and Research before enrolling into LAW1113 Criminal Law I, however students may be take LAW1600 and LAW1113 in the same semester (concurrently) if necessary.

Co-Requisite Rule

Only students studying K30,K50,K58,V72,Y04,Y11,Y66,Y67 X01,X03,X05,999 and G95 (MABUUT - Law in Business ) can enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAW560C, LAW5702

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse elements of offences in The Criminal Code.
  2. Analyse a given factual scenario and evaluate whether an offence has occurred.
  3. Identify the basic ethical duties of lawyers in criminal law matters.
  4. Explain the evolution of the criminal law and the values that inform that evolution.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to the course including the structure of criminal law in Australia, jurisdiction and defining a crime.
  2. The criminal process, the criminal justice system, and lawyers' duties.
  3. Non-fatal non-sexual offences against the person.
  4. Sexual offences against the person including the evolution of the law of consent and the changing social values this portrays.
  5. Fatal offences against the person.
  6. Property offences.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be offered in the on-campus and off-campus modes. On-campus students will attend a weekly two hour lecture and one hour tutorial. Off-campus students access the unit via MyECU/Blackboard. Regular online access is required. Both on-campus and off-campus students will participate in interactive discussions in teams during tutorial sessions (or online in discussion forums). Students will be encouraged to take a rigorous approach to statutory interpretation and further to consider criminal law issues in their broader socio-political context. More specifically, they are invited to consider issues of consent to sexual interaction from a gender-based perspective and consent to assault from an Indigenous Australian perspective. Students will be invited to consider the values that inform the evolution of criminal law. Students will be introduced to concepts of ethical pracitce for prosecutors and defence counsel.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationTutorial participation10%
AssignmentBlackboard quiz10%
AssignmentMajor assignment20%
ExaminationFinal examination60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationForum participation10%
AssignmentBlackboard quiz10%
AssignmentMajor assignment20%
ExaminationFinal examination60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Criminal Law I
  • Unit Code

    LAW1113
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mr Toby Matthew NISBET

Description

This unit introduces students to the basic concepts of criminal law. Students are guided to analyse elements of key offences. It will focus on The Criminal Code. Students will analyse the substantive areas of criminal law in order to gain insight and an ability to contextualize the way offences occur in broader socio-political contexts. Note: Students should complete LAW1600 Legal Writing and Research before enrolling into LAW1113 Criminal Law I, however students may be take LAW1600 and LAW1113 in the same semester (concurrently) if necessary.

Co-Requisite Rule

Only students studying K30,K50,K58,V72,Y04,Y11,Y66,Y67 X01,X03,X05,999 and G95 (MABUUT - Law in Business ) can enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAW560C, LAW5702

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse elements of offences in The Criminal Code.
  2. Analyse a given factual scenario and evaluate whether an offence has occurred.
  3. Identify the basic ethical duties of lawyers in criminal law matters.
  4. Explain the evolution of the criminal law and the values that inform that evolution.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to the course including the structure of criminal law in Australia, jurisdiction and defining a crime.
  2. The criminal process, the criminal justice system, and lawyers' duties.
  3. Non-fatal non-sexual offences against the person.
  4. Sexual offences against the person including the evolution of the law of consent and the changing social values this portrays.
  5. Fatal offences against the person.
  6. Property offences.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

This unit will be offered in the on-campus and off-campus modes. On-campus students will attend a weekly two hour lecture and one hour tutorial. Off-campus students access the unit via MyECU/Blackboard. Regular online access is required. Both on-campus and off-campus students will participate in interactive discussions in teams during tutorial sessions (or online in discussion forums). Students will be encouraged to take a rigorous approach to statutory interpretation and further to consider criminal law issues in their broader socio-political context. More specifically, they are invited to consider issues of consent to sexual interaction from a gender-based perspective and consent to assault from an Indigenous Australian perspective. Students will be invited to consider the values that inform the evolution of criminal law. Students will be introduced to concepts of ethical pracitce for prosecutors and defence counsel.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationTutorial participation10%
AssignmentBlackboard quiz10%
AssignmentMajor assignment20%
ExaminationFinal examination60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationForum participation10%
AssignmentBlackboard quiz10%
AssignmentMajor assignment20%
ExaminationFinal examination60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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