Criminal Law - Text, Cases, and Materials

In Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, Jonathan Herring offers comprehensive legal coverage and insightful analysis, neatly separated out for ease of use, alongside expertly selected extracts from key cases and academic sources.

List of contents

• 1: An introduction to criminal law


• 2: Actus reus: the conduct element


• 3: Mens rea: the mental element


• 4: Strict liability


• 5: Homicide


• 6: Non-fatal non-sexual offences against the person


• 7: Sexual offences


• 8: Theft, handling, and robbery


• 9: Fraud


• 10: Burglary and blackmail


• 11: Criminal damage


• 12: Defences


• 13: The criminal liability of corporations


• 14: Inchoate offences


• 15: Complicity

About the author

Jonathan Herring is Professor of Law at Exeter College, University of Oxford. He is a widely published author across several disciplines, including criminal law, family law, medical law, and legal ethics.

Summary

In Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials, Jonathan Herring offers comprehensive legal coverage and insightful analysis, neatly separated out for ease of use, alongside expertly selected extracts from key cases and academic sources.

Additional text

A very good and comprehensive textbook. It has a clear and unique style... It gives students that extra, theoretical information... It has been on reading lists at every institution I have taught in, and for a reason.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Herring, Jonathan (Professor of Law Herring, Herring Jonathan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780192855923
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285592-3
• No. of pages: 944
• Series: Text, Cases, And Materials
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; England, Wales, LAW / Criminal Law / General, Criminal law & procedure, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Wales / Cymru