Sentencing
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 36 hours
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Swinburne Online Teaching Period 2 |
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Prerequisites
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Aims and objectives
This unit aims to provide students with an understanding of sentencing law principles and practices across Australia. It also provides students with deeper knowledge of criminal law, especially the rules and principles relating to criminal appeals and the criminal principles in each Australian jurisdiction. The unit will also focus on the evolving nature of sentencing law, with an emphasis on appropriate and necessary innovations in this area.
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1 Conduct effective legal research using both primary and secondary materials
2 Explain contemporary debates about the appropriate manner in which to deal with criminal offenders
3 Describe the political, social and economic influences that shape criminal and sentencing law
4 Describe the efficacy of the law to attain the key sentencing objectives in the form of deterrence, rehabilitation and community protection
5 Develop and communicate recommendations about innovative and technological changes that should be made to sentencing law
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Face to Face Contact Class | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Online Contact Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Unspecified Learning Activities Independent Learning | 9.5 | 12 | 114 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Assignment (Individual) 40-50%
Final Examination (Individual) 50-60%
Content
• The aims and role of the criminal law
• Key legislative criminal law provisions in each Australian jurisdiction
• The objectives of sentencing law and practice
• The principal of proportionality
• Aggravating sentencing factors Privacy and institutional/social media
• Mitigating sentencing considerations
• Imprisonment
• Intermediate sanctions
• Mandatory sentencing
• Indigenous offenders
• Innovations to sentencing law
• Sentencing and technology
• Key legislative criminal law provisions in each Australian jurisdiction
• The objectives of sentencing law and practice
• The principal of proportionality
• Aggravating sentencing factors Privacy and institutional/social media
• Mitigating sentencing considerations
• Imprisonment
• Intermediate sanctions
• Mandatory sentencing
• Indigenous offenders
• Innovations to sentencing law
• Sentencing and technology
Study resources
- Recommended reading.
Recommended reading
Students are advised to check the unit outline in the relevant teaching period for appropriate textbooks and further reading.