Criminal Laws Northern Territory

2. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-86287-869-3
Verlag: Federation Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 563 g

For decades the Northern Territory’s criminal law has stood at the jurisprudential frontier of Australia: grappling with a unique set of circumstances, almost entirely dominated by the situation of its Aboriginal people.
This 2nd edition deals in detail with the sweeping changes introduced in 2005 by Part IIAA of the NT Criminal Code. These changes often mirror the Criminal Code (Cth), and have completely rewritten many of the NT Code’s most significant provisions, including the law of murder, rape, and many serious offences against the person.
The book covers procedure and all the major offences, together with public order offences and sentencing. It contains a separate chapter on Aboriginal people that deals with all the recent developments, including the Intervention, and a detailed chapter on the unique history of the Territory’s criminal law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Stephen

Weitere Mitwirkende

Blokland, Jenny

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Interpretation of codes, History of Northern Territory criminal law, Indigenous people and Northern Territory criminal law, Investigation, process and procedure, Criminal responsibility and s 31, Murder, manslaughter and s 154, Partial defences: provocation and diminished responsibility, Self-help defences: self defence, duress and coercion, Mistake and claim of right, Complicity and inchoate offences, Offences against the person, Sexual offences, Property offences, Public order offences Sentencing.

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Gray Stephen Gray, a distinguished novelist who won the Vogel Prize in 2000 for The Artist is a Thief, is a senior lecturer in law at Monash University, Melbourne.