Nature of Crime is covered across 9 key topics:

1. The meaning of crime
2. The elements of crime: actus reus, mens rea
3. Strict liability offences
4. Causation
5. Categories of crime, including: offences against the person, offences against the sovereign, economic offences (property/white collar/computer), drug offences, driving offences, public order offences, preliminary crimes (attempts and conspiracy)
6. Summary and indictable offences
7. Parties to a crime including principal in the first degree, principal in the second degree, accessory before the fact, accessory after the fact
8. Factors affecting criminal behaviour
9. Crime prevention: situational and social

Extract from Legal Studies Stage 6 Syllabus. © 2009 Board of Studies NSW.