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Criminal Law, 5th Edition

Criminal Law, 5th Edition

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  • Publisher: Pearson U.K._
  • ISBN: 9781292001944
  • Published In: June 2014
  • Format: Paperback , 642 pages
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Trusted by generations of students, the Longman Law Series is guaranteed to spark your academic curiosity and provide you with the best possible basis for your legal study. Using a range of problematic case scenarios this text provides a Coherent and theoretical analysis of Criminal Law.

 

Core Features

 

Your essential guide to all aspects of criminal law doctrine and the theories and policy considerations which underpin it, Criminal Law helps you get the most from your study by equipping you with:

  • a strong understanding of the key aspects of criminal liability, major criminal offences and defences necessary for your course
  • a range of hypothetical case examples clarifying your understanding of complex points and illustrating how you can apply the legal principles to a wealth of factual scenarios
  • key further reading references to pertinent academic articles and end of chapter summaries to cement your understanding of the subject area and  provide a springboard to further study

 

Your essential guide to all aspects of Criminal Law, this new edition contains:

  • A range of hypothetical examples to illustrate problematic case scenarios
  • Invaluable further reading references to a wide range of academic articles and additional source material 
  • Major rewrites of the sections on sexual offences, complicity, and attempt
  • Expanded anaysis of corporate liability
  • Full coverage of important new cases including ClintonDawesBowyer and HatterHillAsmelash, and Dawes on partial defences to murder, Daoand R v A on duress and Pipe on necessity

Part I - Introduction

 Chapter 1   Understanding criminal law

 Chapter 2   Decisions to criminalise

 Chapter 3   Punishment

 

Part II – General principles of criminal liability   

Chapter 4   Actus reus

Chapter 5   Causation

Chapter 6   Mens rea

Chapter 7   Strict liability

Chapter 8   Relationship between actus reus and mens rea

Chapter 9   Defences (1)

Chapter 10    Defences (2): affirmative defences

 

Part III – Offences against the person

Chapter 11    Non-fatal offences

Chapter 12    Sexual offences

Chapter 13    Homicide

 

Part IV – Property Offences

Chapter 14    Theft

Chapter 15    Fraud and making off without payment

Chapter 16    Other property offences

Chapter 17    Criminal damage

 

Part V – Inchoate offences and complicity

Chapter 18    Inchoate offences

Chapter 19    Complicity

William Wilson is Professor of Criminal Law at Queen Mary, University of London. 

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