Complete Criminal Law

Offers a complete guide to the LLB/CPE criminal law syllabus with extracts from key cases, academic materials and explanatory text integrated into a very clear narrative
Every chapter offers introductory and concluding bullet-point reviews, with a final section challenging students to apply what they have learned through examination-style questions (guidance on answering these questions can be found on the accompanying Online Resource Centre)
Extracts are included from key cases. Every extract is placed fully in context and framed carefully in explanatory text to highlight its meaning and significance
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
An Online Resource Centre provides a host of additional materials for both lecturers and students; a test bank of multiple choice questions that can be downloaded to a Virtual Learning Environment, along with guidance on answering questions posed throughout the text, regular updates to the law, and web links

New to this edition

Coverage of new cases including: R v Rahman [2008] ; Stringer [2011] ; R v Gnango [2011] ; Robinson v Queen [2011]; R v Banfield [2013] ; R. (on the application of Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice, R (AM) v DPP [2013] ; Dawes, Hatter & Bowyer [2013] ; R v Asmelash [2013] ; R v Meeking [2013] ; Coley, McGhee, Harris [2013] ; R (F) v DPP [2013] ; McNally v R [2013]
Inclusion of new extracts including: R. Buxton, 'Being an Accessory to One's Own Murder' [2012], D J Baker & LX Zhao, 'Contributory qualifying and non-qualifying triggers in the loss of control defence: a wrong turn on sexual infidelity' [2012], Virgo, 'Encouraging or assisting more than one offence' [2012], S. Shute, in 'Causation: Foreseeability v Natural Consequences' (1992), Alan Norrie , in 'A Critique of Criminal Causation' [1991]

Complete Criminal Law: Text, Cases, & Materials offers a student-centered approach to the criminal law syllabus. Clear and concise explanation of general legal principles is combined with fully integrated extracts from the leading cases and a wide range of academic materials. The extracts have been carefully selected to ensure that they are detailed enough to illustrate the point of law under consideration, but succinct enough not to disrupt the flow of the text or to intimidate the student new to the study of criminal law.

The book has been carefully structured with the needs of the student firmly in mind. Each chapter begins with basic principles, and gradually covers all the core topics a student needs to know. Unique to this textbook is the extent to which the law is placed firmly in its social context. This will reinforce understanding by relating essential aspects of the law to vital social and moral problems.

Throughout the text a range of learning features are employed to consolidate understanding and encourage application: thinking points containing reflective and short answer questions, definition boxes, summary points, diagrams, and problem/essay questions (with guidance on answering all questions on the accompanying Online Resource Centre). Chapter summaries and further reading recommendations provide the perfect springboard for further research.

This innovative text aims to engage the reader in an active approach to learning and to stimulate reflection about the role of criminal law in society.

Online Resource Centre

Student resources
- 6-monthly updates
- Links to relevant websites
- Guideline answers to problem questions and thinking points
- Exam style questions with guideline answers on hot exam topics

Lecturer resources
- Test bank of 200 multiple choice questions

Readership: Students on the LLB/GDL studying modules on criminal law.

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 II: 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 I: Theft, robbery, handling
13: Property offences II: Fraud and making off without payment
14: Property offences III: Burglary, aggravated burglary, blackmail, and criminal damage
15: Inchoate offences: Attempt, conspiracy, and assisting and encouraging under The Serious Crime Act 2007