Third Edition
Australian Criminal Justice, 3rd edition, provides a clear overview and critical examination of the Australian criminal justice process and the criminal law system. Fully updated and revised, this text analyses the influences that mould criminal justice and examines the institutional and administrative features of its operation in Australian jurisdictions.
Topics include: the substantive criminal law, trial procedures, the exercise of discretion, and the power bases that underlie them.
The book contains detailed discussion of both procedural justice, in the form of written rules and universally recognised rights and protections, and substantive justice, in which common-sense notions of fairness and equity are dominant.Australian Criminal Justice, 3rd edition begins with the theory and basic elements of the criminal law and then guides readers chronologically through the stages of a case: investigation, pretrial decision-making, trial, evidence, sentencing, punishment and penalty, and appeal. The final chapter persuasively reveals the flaws in our criminal justice system, through an examination of groups who experience discrimination this system.
Thoroughly updated and revised new edition covers all areas of the criminal law in one book: substantive law, criminal procedure, evidence, the criminal code, and statutes.
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References
Index
Mark Findlay – Professor of Criminal Justice and Deputy Director, Institute of Criminology, University of Sydney
Stephen Odgers – Barrister
Stanley Yeo – Professor of Law, Southern Cross University
