Criminal Law clearly sets out the key topics your students will need to understand, unpicking the relevant case and statute law, whilst discussing the issues and academic debates that inevitably arise from this contentious area of law. The authors also provide criticism of the current law as well as discussion around reform.
Criminal Law clearly sets out the key topics your students will need to understand, unpicking the relevant case and statute law, whilst discussing the issues and academic debates that inevitably arise from this contentious area of law. The authors also provide criticism of the current law as well as discussion around reform.
"I think that the book is pitched particularly well for those who are new to the study of criminal law. It also puts the law in a wider social and political context and this encourages students to think beyond the black letter law"
- Louise Taylor, Nottingham Trent University
Catherine Elliott (LLB, DEA) is a qualified barrister and Senior Lecturer in Law at City University, London. She has extensive experience of teaching and writing about law.
Frances Quinn is an award-winning journalist, with particular interest in and experience of the law.
1. Elements of a crime
2. Strict liabilty
3. Murder
4. Voluntary manslaughter
5. Involuntary manslaughter
6. Non-fatal offences against the person
7. Sexual offences
8. Non-fraudulent property offences
9. Fraudulent property offences
10. Inchoate offences
11. Accomplices
12. Corporate liability
13. General defences
14. Codification of the criminal law