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Unlocking Criminal Law

4th Edition

By Jacqueline Martin, Tony Storey

Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge – 592 pages

Series: Unlocking the Law

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Description

Criminal law is a dynamic and popular element of all law degrees. Unlocking Criminal Law will ensure that you grasp the main concepts with ease providing you with an indispensable foundation in the subject. The book explains in detailed, yet straightforward, terms:

  • Background to criminal law
  • Homicide

  • Actus reus
  • Non-fatal offences against the person

  • Mens rea
  • Sexual offences

  • Strict liability
  • Theft

  • Parties to a crime
  • Robbery, burglary and other offences in the Theft Acts

  • Inchoate offences
  • Deception offences

  • Capacity
  • Criminal damage

  • General defences
  • Public order offences.

    • The Unlocking the Law series is designed specifically to make the law accessible. Each chapter opens with a list of aims and objectives, contains activities such as quick quizzes and self-test questions, key facts charts to consolidate your knowledge, and diagrams to aid learning. Cases and judgments are prominently displayed, as are primary source quotations. Summaries help check your understanding of each chapter and there is a glossary of legal terminology. New features include problem questions with guidance on answering, as well as essay questions and answer plans, plus cases and materials exercises.

    The accompanying website www.unlockingthelaw.co.uk provides free resources such as multiple choice questions, key questions and answers, revision mp3s and cases and materials exercises.

    Reviews

    "The writing style is clear and precise. It has 'user-friendly' language which avoids being over-simplistic whilst still managing to accurately explain legal meanings."
    David W Selfe, Director, School of Law, Liverpool John Moores University

    Contents

    1 Introduction to criminal law 2 Actus reus 3 Mens rea 4 Strict liability 5 Parties to a crime 6 Inchoate offences 7 Capacity 8 General defences 9 Homicide 10 Non-fatal offences against the person 11 Sexual offences 12 Theft 13 Robbery, burglary and other offences in the Theft Acts 14 Deception offences 15 Criminal damage 16 Public order offences

    Author Bio

    Jacqueline Martin LLM, ten years' experience as a practising barrister and has taught law at all levels. Tony Storey LLB LLM is Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University.

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