LAW109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Criminal Law Of Australia, Rights-Based Approach To Development, On Liberty
8 May 2018
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LAW109 Lecture
Week 1 [What is crime?]
What is crime?
- What makes behaviour more than simply socially unacceptable?
- Who decides?
- Section 76 of the Summary Offences Act (NT)
o Section 76: Playing musical instruments so as to annoy
Assessment Structure
- Task 1: Research Activity [10%]
- Task 2: Problem Question (Homicide) [15%]
- Task 3: Problem Question (Assault) [15%]
- Task 4: Class Participation [20%]
- Task 5: Law Reform Submission [40%]
Definitions of Crime
- Crie. A rog puishale the state Butterworths Australian Criminal Law
Dictionary, 1997)
- A rie or offee is a legal rog that a e folloed riial proeedigs
hih a result i puishet G. Willias, Textbook of Criminal Law, 1983, 27)
- A hua rights ased approah sas that crime occurs whenever there is a human
right that has ee iolated, regardless of the legalit or otherise of the atio ‘
White and F Haines, Crimes and Criminology: An Introduction, 2004, 5)
Who ought to be criminal? (Consider if the below are criminal activities)
- Personal drug taking
- Prostitution
- Offensive language
- Public urination
- Association with an outlawed bikie gang
- Intoxicated and disorderly conduct
- Procuring an abortion
- Euthanasia / assisted suicide
- Smoking in public places
- Smoking in private places
The Harm Principle
- …the sole ed for hih akid are arrated, idiiduall or olletiel, i
interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number is self-protection. That
the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercise over any member of a
iilised ouit, agaist his ill, is to preet har to others Joh Stuart Mills,
On Liberty (Penguin, reprint 1974) 68)
- What do we mean by harm? How do we measure it?
- Is being offended by something the same thing as being harmed?
- Must the harm be direct, or do we include indirect forms of harm?
- Does the principle accommodate concerns of potential harm?
- Are there really no other circumstances in which the criminal law should be invoked?
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Document Summary
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