Law for Psychologists 2 - LAWS9810
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Academic Program must be PhD/Master of Psychology (Forensic), Program 1405 and 8257.
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Recommended Prior Knowledge
Course Objectives
- To assist students to develop a functional and contextual knowledge of major areas of interest to psychologists that concern criminal law principles and issues, court procedure and the aspects of evidence law in an historical and socio-political context
- To assist students to develop further their capacities for disciplined analysis of facts and critical analytical skills concentrating on the legal principles as they affect criminal law, procedural law and evidence law
- To stimulate students to examine the criminal and procedural law in a social and historical context. This will involve comparing the position and power of the proponents in the criminal trial, noting the roles that each proponent undertakes and the way in which procedural and substantive law might be utilized by some of these proponents. Students should thus develop a critical understanding of and sensitivity to the way the criminal law, procedural law and evidence law operate in practice.
Main Topics
- An Introduction to issues associated with policing, arrest, and search
- The accused, the prosecution, the judge and the jury
- An introduction to evidence law
- Experts as witnesses, the accused and limitations on evidence - tendency and coincidence evidence and character of the accused
Assessment
| Class participation | 20% | |
| Court report questionnaire | 20% | |
| Court report essay or Research essay | 3,500 - 4,000 words | 60% |
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