Complete Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (7th edn)
Published in Print: 20 May 2020 Published Online:September 2020
ISBN: 9780198848462
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Abstract
Complete Criminal Law offers a student-centred approach to the criminal law syllabus. Clear explanation of general legal principles is combined with fully integrated extracts from the 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: Highbury Poultry Farm Produce Ltd v CPS, Lane and Letts (strict liability); Tas, Crilly, Dreszer, Harper (secondary participation); Petgrave (duress of circumstances); Cheeseman, Wilkinson (self-defence); MK v R and Gega v R (modern slavery: compulsion); Taj [2018] EWCA Crim 1743 (intoxicated mistake and self-defence); Loake v Crown Prosecution Service [2017] EWHC 2855 (insanity); Offensive Weapons Act 2019; BM (consent in offences against the person).
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 and general principles
- 2. Actus reus: acts, omissions and causation
- 3. Mens rea: intention, recklessness, negligence and gross negligence
- 4. Strict, vicarious and corporate liability
- 5. Secondary participation: parties to a crime
- 6. Homicide 1: murder
- 7. Homicide 2: voluntary and involuntary manslaughter
- 8. Defences of incapacity and mental conditions
- 9. Defences of compulsion
- 10. Non-fatal offences against the person
- 11. Sexual offences
- 12. Property offences 1: theft, robbery and handling
- 13. Property offences 2: fraud and making off without payment
- 14. Property offences 3: burglary, blackmail and criminal damage
- 15. Inchoate offences: attempt, conspiracy and assisting and encouraging under the Serious Crime Act 2007
- End Matter
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