Complete Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (8th edn)
Published in Print: 22 April 2022 Published Online:September 2022
ISBN: 9780192855947
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Abstract
Complete Criminal Law offers a student-centred approach to the criminal law syllabus. Clear explanations of general legal principles are combined with fully integrated extracts from leading cases and a wide range of academic materials. This text aims to engage the reader in an active approach to learning and to stimulate reflection about the role of criminal law, offering a complete guide to the LLB/GDL criminal law syllabus with extracts from key cases, academic materials, and explanatory text integrated into a clear narrative. It provides a range of pedagogical features, including concise summaries, diagrams, and examples. Thinking points are included to facilitate and reinforce understanding. Students are referred to the social and moral context of the law, wherever relevant, to encourage them to engage fully with the topical subject matter. This new edition includes coverage of several recent cases of importance including: R v Aidid [2021] (voluntary intoxication), Barton and Booth [2020] (dishonesty), Broughton [2020] and Long, Bowers and Cole [2020] (involuntary manslaughter), Damji [2020] (strict liability: reasonable excuse), Dawson [2021] and Singh [2020] (loss of control), DPP v M [2020] (defence of compulsion), Ivor and Others v R [2021], Lawrance [2020], and Attorney-General’s Reference (Section 36 of the CJA 1972) (No 1 of 2020) [2020] (sexual offences), Lanning and Camille [2021] (joint venture: overwhelming supervening act), Martins [2021] (appropriation in robbery), MS [2021] (proximity in attempt), Pwr v DPP [2022] (strict liability), Thacker and others [2021] (necessity: political protest), Williams (Demario) [2020] (self-defence: defence of property) and the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 (coercive control, strangulation, consent).
Keywords:
actus reus, mens rea, secondary participation, strict liability, duress of circumstances, modern slavery, consent, self-defence, intoxicated mistake, offences against the personSubjects:
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Contents
- Front Matter
- 1. Introduction to the criminal justice system
- 2. Actus reus: the conduct element
- 3. Mens rea: blameworthy states of mind
- 4. Murder and voluntary manslaughter
- 5. Involuntary and corporate manslaughter
- 6. Defences of incapacity and mental conditions
- 7. Defences of compulsion
- 8. Non-fatal offences against the person
- 9. Sexual offences
- 10. Property offences 1: theft, robbery, burglary, and handling
- 11. Property offences 2: fraud and other property offences
- 12. Inchoate offences
- 13. Secondary participation: parties to a crime
- End Matter
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