Criminal Law

<p>Preface </p> <p>Publisher’s acknowledgements </p> <p>Table of cases </p> <p>Table of statutes</p> <p>Table of statutory instruments </p> <p>Table of United States legislation </p> <p>Table of international conventions </p> <p>Abbreviations</p> <p>Part I Introduction</p> <p>1 Understanding criminal law</p> <p>2 Decisions to criminalise </p> <p>3 Punishment </p> <p>Part II General principles of criminal liability </p> <p>4 Actus reus </p> <p>5 Causation </p> <p>6 Mens rea </p> <p>7 Strict Liability </p> <p>8 Relationship between actus reus and mens rea </p> <p>9 Defences (1) </p> <p>10 Defences (2): affirmative defences </p> <p>Part III Offences against the person </p> <p>11 Non-fatal offences </p> <p>12 Sexual Offences </p> <p>13 Homicide </p> <p>Part IV Property Offences </p> <p>14 Theft </p> <p>15 Fraud and making off without payment </p> <p>16 Other property offences </p> <p>17 Criminal damage </p> <p>Part V Inchoate offences and complicity </p> <p>18 Inchoate offences </p> <p>19 Complicity </p> <p>Bibliography </p> <p>Index </p> <p>&nbsp;</p>