Full Description
Concepts, cases, and commentary combine to stimulate active learning, critical thinking, and perceptive analysis.
Complete Criminal Law offers students a carefully blended combination of the concepts and cases of criminal law, accompanied by insightful commentary - a combination designed to encourage critical thinking, stimulate analysis, and promote a complete understanding.
Key features:
- Clear explanations of the legal concepts that underpin the subject give students a strong base on which to build
- Extracts from cases and primary materials show at first hand the law at work and will deepen understanding
- Thought-provoking thinking points that help develop the ability to analyse and critically evaluate the law
- Review questions and self-testing tools will help consolidate knowledge and give students the confidence to perform well in assessments
New to this edition:
- A further level of sub-headings has been added, to improve structure and navigation throughout.
- The offence of non-fatal strangulation or suffocation (s 75A Serious Crime Act 2015, inserted by s 70 Domestic Abuse Act 2021), now in force, is considered in detail.
- Changes introduced by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 including a new offence of failing to prevent fraud.
Digital formats and resources
The 9th edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the e-book and Law Trove offer a mobile experience and convenient access along with multiple-choice questions, answer guidance to problem questions and thinking points, extra exam-style questions, functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support. For more information about e-books, please visit www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
Contents
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
