Abstract

This article utilizes the sexual offence reform in Australian Capital Territory, Tasmania, and Western Australia as a case study to critically examine the perils and causes of duplicate offences. For perils, this article demonstrates that the failure to abolish a lesser offence (i.e. the procurement by false pretence offence) that was rendered redundant by a statutory expansion of the primary offence (i.e. rape vis-à-vis sex obtained by fraud) would create structural incoherency in the legal framework and impede the court from giving full effect to the plain words of the amended provision. For causes, this article identifies the positive but insufficient role of law reform commissions in ensuring appropriate treatment of the lesser duplicate offence by the legislature. The article proposes that law reform commissions should be more forcefully explicit when making recommendations relating to the abolishment of redundant offences.

中文翻译：

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两个是人群：关于立法程序，法律改革委员会和处理重复犯罪的澳大利亚案例研究

摘要

本文利用澳大利亚首都特区，塔斯马尼亚州和西澳大利亚州的性犯罪改革作为案例研究，以严格审查重复犯罪的危险和原因。对于危险而言，本文证明，如果未能废除因主要犯罪的法定扩大（即，以欺诈手段获得的针对性的强奸）而使多余的次要犯罪（即通过虚假假冒罪行进行的采购）变得多余，则会导致法律框架中的结构性不一致，并阻碍了法院充分执行经修订的规定的通俗易懂的文字。出于原因，本文确定了法律改革委员会在确保立法机关对较少重复的犯罪行为进行适当处理方面所起的积极但不足的作用。