Lesson 01

• Purposes of Criminal Law

  Protect Individuals

  Protect property

  Protect society

  Maintain public order or security

  Protect justice and rule of law

  Protect rights and cultures

  Improve society generally
• How criminal law achieves its purpose

  Establishes the law

  Enforces the law

  Decides who is guilty

  Imposes sanctions on offenders
• Crime

  Against an existing law (act or omission)

  Harmful to individuals or society

  Punishable by law
• Protect individuals

  Establish processes and sanctions to punish people
• Protect property

  People cannot steal or decieve what belongs to another
• Protect society

  Physical, social and financial aspects of society can function
• Maintain public order and security

  Sets standards and makes clear what behaviours will be tolerable

  Makes social interactions predictable
• Protect justice and rule of law

  State can punish people for criminal offences
• Protect rights and cultures

  Human rights and individual freedoms
• Improve society generally

  Deterring people from commiting crimes by offering change of rehabillitation
• An act

  Doing something (act)

  Failing to do something (omission)