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LAWS6034: Gender, Violence and the Criminal Law
2025 unit information
In this unit, students will gain an appreciation of how gender impacts the ways that the criminal law and justice system contend with accused persons and their victims. The construction of gender, understandings of violence, and how and why people mobilise the law after violence will be examined. The Law's claims to equality and neutrality will be scrutinised, as will perceptions of discrimination based on gender. Some ingredients of particular personal violence offences (assault, sexual assault), related proof requirements and sentencing from historical, theoretical and practical context perspectives will be examined. Further information about this unit is available in the Sydney Law School timetable https://canvas.sydney.edu.au/courses/4533/pages/postgraduate-lecture-timetable, unit of study outline https://www.sydney.edu.au/units and academic staff profile https://www.sydney.edu.au/law/about/our-people/academic-staff.html
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Sydney Law School
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Law |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. critically analyse how violence is experienced, defined and regulated.
- LO2. critically analyse how gender is socially constructed and its interactions with violence and with constructs of victim and accused.
- LO3. critically analyse the social, philosophical and historical contexts in which violence, gender and criminal law operate.
- LO4. apply a preliminary understanding of how the criminal law operates within its broader societal context and within the criminal justice system.
- LO5. evaluate certain key concepts and principles underlying criminal liability in certain specified areas of criminal law.
- LO6. analyse and apply legal concepts and rules to hypothetical fact scenarios to predict possible legal outcomes.
- LO7. apply relevant legal research skills and communicate complex legal concepts both verbally and in writing to diverse audiences.
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Intensive April 2025
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Block mode | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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