Hey Elyse!
I came to your legal lecture on Wednesday and found it really really helpful so thankyou. Also, I'm doing the Crime 15 markers from the 2014 and 2015 HSC Paper but I'm really confused on what to write in my intro and conclusion. In my body for the 2015 question (effectiveness of domestic and international measures in dealing with transnational crime), I talk about the AFP, Customs and Border Protection, INTERPOL, UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime, as well as The Pacific Transnational Crime Network. I also talk about how the world is more globalised now and although that increases the opportunity of transnational crime, it has made these domestic and international measures much more effective. What should i be writing in my intro and conclusion and how should i be structuring it? Thank you so much
Ps your notes are so amazing
Hey there! I'm so glad you came to the lectures and gained something from them!
So, for your introduction in this scenario I'd be trying to tick off these things:
-Defining transnational crime (and including it's context: just a few words on a globalised world)
-Making an evaluation on the question, so about the effectiveness. Just because it's my own style of writing, I'd say something about the law aiming to reflect the moral and ethical standards of society, and in a globalised world, the law aims to reform to respond to issues that may not have existed before. (Obviously would make this sound nicer). This is a way of bringing in the themes and challenges!
-Compare or contrast the international and domestic measures, identify you recognise the differences and perhaps even the relationship between them.
You don't need more than about 4 sentences here, in fact you don't even need to identify those responses you've mentioned. Absolutely bring them in to the body paragraphs, but there's no benefit in listing them all in the introduction.
Perhaps you could follow a structure like this:
-In an increasingly globalised world, we have transnational crime. Define.
-There are various domestic responses to this, blah blah.
-There are also a bunch of international responses, and this is the link they have to domestic measures.
-This is my judgement on the two of them.
-Relate judgement to theme or challenge (compliance, ethical standards, law reform, etc).
So glad you find the notes helpful as well. Let me know what you think of this structure!