Blackstone's Police Q&A Volume 1: Crime 2026

The best-selling revision tool for all police officers sitting the NPPF Step Two Legal Examination. Designed to be used alongside the College of Policing-endorsed Blackstone's Police Manuals 2026, the Q&As provide the most comprehensive and authoritative method of self-testing in advance of the exam.

List of contents

• 1: Mens Rea (State of Mind)


• 2: Actus Reus (Criminal Conduct)


• 3: Incomplete Offences


• 4: General Defences


• 5: Homicide


• 6: Misuse of Drugs


• 7: Firearms and Gun Crime


• 8: Weapons


• 9: Racially and Religiously Aggravated Offences


• 10: Non-fatal Offences Against the Person


• 11: Offences Involving the Deprivation of Liberty


• 12: Sexual Offences


• 13: Child Protection


• 14: Theft and Related Offences


• 15: Fraud


• 16: Criminal Damage

About the author

Paul Connor Cert Ed (FE), PG Cert (ODE), LLB is a Police Training Consultant, teaching law since 2002. He is the author of the Blackstone's Crime Manual and the Consultant Editor for the Blackstone's Police Manuals. He is the co-author of Blackstone's Police Investigators' Manual, Blackstone's Police Investigators' Workbook and is the author of the Blackstone's Sergeants' and Inspectors' Mock Examination Paper.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Connor
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9780198973874
• ISBN: 978-0-19-897387-4
• Series: Police Q & A
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Procedure, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, LAW / Legal Education, Police & security services, Police Procedures, Police and security services, Police law and police procedures, Law: Study & Revision Guides, Law: study and revision guides