Criminal Law (17th edn)
Published in Print: 10 June 2024 Published Online:August 2024
ISBN: 9780198902614
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Abstract
Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. Textbook on Criminal Law has been providing students of criminal law with a readable and reliable introduction to the subject for the past 30 years. This is the seventeenth edition, which has been updated to include all of the latest case law and statutory changes. Topics covered include actus reus, mens rea, negligence, and strict liability, and capacity and incapacitating conditions. It also examines general defences, parties to crime, inchoate offences, and homicide. Towards the end of the book chapters consider non-fatal offences, sexual offences, offences under the Theft Acts 1968 and 1978, fraud, and criminal damage.
Keywords:
actus reus and mens rea, assaults, capacity, criminal damage, Fraud Act 2006, general defences, homicide, negligence and strict liability, sexual offences, Theft ActsSubjects:
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Contents
- Front Matter
- 1. Criminal law in context
- 2. Actus reus
- 3. Mens rea
- 4. Negligence and strict liability
- 5. Capacity and incapacitating conditions
- 6. General defences
- 7. Parties to crime
- 8. Inchoate offences
- 9. Homicide
- 10. Non-fatal offences against the person
- 11. Sexual offences
- 12. Offences under the Theft Acts 1968 and 1978: Theft and related offences
- 13. Fraud
- 14. Further offences under the Theft Acts
- 15. Criminal damage
- End Matter
© Michael J. Allen and Ian Edwards 2024
