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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 674 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x189 mm, weight: 1179 g, 54 Line drawings, color
  • Serija: Unlocking the Law
  • Išleidimo metai: 19-Aug-2019
  • Leidėjas: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 036724473X
  • ISBN-13: 9780367244736
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  • Formatas: Paperback / softback, 674 pages, aukštis x plotis: 246x189 mm, weight: 1179 g, 54 Line drawings, color
  • Serija: Unlocking the Law
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Unlocking Criminal Law will help you grasp the main concepts of the subject with ease. Containing accessible explanations in clear and precise terms that are easy to understand, it provides an excellent foundation for learning and revising Criminal Law.

The information is clearly presented in a logical structure and the following features support learning helping you to advance with confidence:





Clear learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter set out the skills and knowledge you will need to get to grips with the subject;



Key Facts boxes throughout each chapter allow you to progressively build and consolidate your understanding;

End-of-chapter summaries provide a useful check-list for each topic;

Cases and judgments are highlighted to help you find them and add them to your notes quickly;

Frequent activities and self-test questions are included so you can put your knowledge into practice;

Sample essay questions with annotated answers prepare you for assessment;











Glossary of legal terms clarifies important definitions.

This edition has been fully updated to include discussion of recent changes and developments within criminal law, including new case law on causation, self-defence, consent, diminished responsibility, on loss of control, gross negligence manslaughter, causing or allowing the death of a vulnerable adult, infanticide, theft and blackmail.
Acknowledgements xiv
Guide to the book xv
Preface xvii
List of figures
xviii
Table of cases
xix
Table of statutory instruments
xxxvi
Table of legislation
xxxvii
Table of European instruments
xliii
PART I CONCEPTS IN CRIMINAL LAW
1(2)
1 Introduction to Criminal Law
3(1)
1.1 Purpose of criminal law
3(1)
1.1.1 Should the law enforce moral values?
4(2)
1.1.2 Example of the changing nature of criminal law
6(1)
1.2 Sources of criminal law
7(3)
1.2.1 Common law offences
7(1)
1.2.2 Statutory offences
8(1)
1.2.3 Codification of the criminal law
8(2)
1.2.4 Reform of the law
10(1)
1.3 Defining a crime
10(2)
1.3.1 Conduct criminalised by the judges
10(1)
1.3.2 Retroactive effect of case law
11(1)
1.4 Classification of offences
12(2)
1.4.1 Classifying law by its source
12(1)
1.4.2 Categories for purposes of police powers of detention
12(1)
1.4.3 Classifying by the type of harm caused by the crime
13(1)
1.4.4 Classification by where a case will be tried
13(1)
1.5 Criminal justice system
14(4)
1.5.1 Trials in the magistrates' courts
14(1)
1.5.2 Trials in the Crown Court
14(1)
1.5.3 Appeals from a magistrates' court
15(1)
1.5.4 Appeals from trials in the Crown Court
16(2)
1.5.5 The hierarchy of the courts
18(1)
1.6 Sentencing
18(1)
1.6.1 Purposes of sentencing
18(1)
1.7 Elements of a crime
18(1)
1.8 Burden and standard of proof
19(2)
1.8.1 Presumption of innocence
19(1)
1.8.2 Raising a defence
20(1)
1.8.3 Standard of proof
21(1)
1.9 Criminal law and human rights
21(12)
1.9.1 The right to a fair trial
22(1)
1.9.2 Burden of proof
22(4)
1.9.3 No punishment without law
26(2)
1.9.4 Other human rights
28(2)
1.9.5 Human rights and criminal procedure
30(2)
Further reading
32(1)
2 Actus Reus
33(1)
2.1 The physical element
33(2)
2.1.1 Conduct and consequences
34(1)
2.1.2 Circumstances
34(1)
2.1.3 The physical element alone is not a crime
34(1)
2.1.4 Omissions
35(1)
2.2 Voluntary conduct
35(1)
2.3 Omissions
35(8)
2.3.1 Commission by omission
35(1)
2.3.2 Imposition of a duty to act
36(6)
2.3.3 Breach of duty to act
42(1)
2.3.4 Reform
42(1)
2.4 Causation
43(20)
2.4.1 Factual causation
43(1)
2.4.2 Legal causation
44(14)
Sample essay questions
58(3)
Further reading
61(2)
3 Mens Rea
63(1)
3.1 The mental element
63(1)
3.2 Intention
64(5)
3.2.1 Direct intention
64(1)
3.2.2 Oblique intention
64(5)
3.3 Recklessness
69(5)
3.3.1 The Cunningham test
69(1)
3.3.2 The Caldwell years: 1981--2003
70(1)
3.3.3 Back to Cunningham: G and another
71(3)
3.4 Negligence
74(1)
3.5 Dishonesty
74(1)
3.6 Transferred malice
74(4)
3.7 Coincidence of actus reus and mens rea
78(7)
Sample essay question
81(2)
Further reading
83(2)
4 Strict Liability
85(1)
4.1 Absolute liability
86(1)
4.2 Strict liability
87(4)
4.2.1 No due diligence defence
89(1)
4.2.2 No defence of mistake
89(2)
4.2.3 Summary of strict liability
91(1)
4.3 Common law strict liability offences
91(1)
4.4 Statutory strict liability offences
92(18)
4.4.1 The presumption of mens tea
93(1)
4.4.2 The Gammon criteria
94(1)
4.4.3 Looking at the wording of an Act
95(1)
4.4.4 Quasi-criminal offences
96(2)
4.4.5 Strict liability and human rights
98(2)
4.4.6 Issues of social concern
100(2)
4.4.7 Promoting enforcement of the law
102(1)
4.4.8 Twenty-first-century cases
102(8)
4.5 Justification for strict liability
110(1)
4.5.1 Arguments against strict liability
111(1)
4.6 Proposals for reform
111(6)
Sample essay question
113(2)
Further reading
115(2)
5 Parties to a Crime
117(1)
5.1 Principal offenders
117(1)
5.1.1 Difficulties in identifying the principal
117(1)
5.2 Innocent agents
118(1)
5.3 Secondary parties
118(13)
5.3.1 Actus reus of secondary parties: aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring
119(5)
5.3.2 Mens rea of secondary parties
124(7)
5.4 Withdrawal from participation
131(1)
5.4.1 Pre-planned criminal activity
131(1)
5.4.2 Spontaneous criminal activity
132(1)
5.5 Assisting an offender
132(1)
5.6 Reform
133(4)
Sample essay question
134(2)
Further reading
136(1)
6 Inchoate Offences
137(1)
6.1 Inchoate offences
137(1)
6.2 Attempt
138(1)
6.2.1 Actus reus of attempt
138(4)
6.2.2 Mens rea of attempt
142(2)
6.2.3 Impossibility
144(2)
6.2.4 Excluded offences
146(1)
6.2.5 Successful attempts
147(1)
6.2.6 Reform
147(1)
6.3 Conspiracy
148(10)
6.3.1 Actus reus of statutory conspiracy
148(3)
6.3.2 Mens rea of statutory conspiracy
151(4)
6.3.3 Common law conspiracy
155(2)
6.3.4 Impossibility
157(1)
6.4 Assisting or encouraging crime
158(13)
6.4.1 Background
158(1)
6.4.2 Liability under the Serious Crime Act 2007
159(2)
6.4.3 Actus reus elements
161(1)
6.4.4 Mens rea elements
161(3)
6.4.5 No requirement for substantive offence to be committed (s 49)
164(1)
6.4.6 Defence of `acting reasonably' (s 50)
164(1)
6.4.7 Defence for victims (s 51)
165(1)
6.4.8 Impossibility
165(1)
6.4.9 Attempt liability
165(1)
6.4.10 Evaluation of the Serious Crime Act 2007
166(3)
Sample essay question
169(1)
Further reading
170(1)
7 Capacity
171(1)
7.1 Children
172(4)
7.1.1 Children under the age of ten
172(1)
7.1.2 Child safety orders
173(1)
7.1.3 Children aged ten and over
173(3)
7.2 Mentally ill persons
176(1)
7.2.1 Unfitness to plead
176(2)
7.2.2 Insanity at time of offence
178(1)
7.2.3 Diminished responsibility
178(1)
7.2.4 Sentencing mentally ill offenders
178(1)
7.3 Vicarious liability
179(5)
7.3.1 Extended meaning of words
180(1)
7.3.2 Delegation principle
181(2)
7.3.3 Reasons for vicarious liability
183(1)
7.3.4 Criticisms of vicarious liability
184(1)
7.4 Corporate liability
184(7)
7.4.1 Exceptions to the general rule of liability
185(1)
7.4.2 The principle of identification
185(5)
7.4.3 Vicarious liability
190(2)
7.4.4 Breach of statutory duty
191(1)
7.5 Corporate manslaughter
191(1)
7.5.1 Previous law
192(2)
7.5.2 Reform of corporate manslaughter
194(1)
7.5.3 Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
195(2)
7.5.4 Is the Act working?
197(6)
7.5.5 Why make organisations criminally liable for manslaughter?
203(3)
Sample essay question
206(1)
Further reading
207(2)
8 General Defences
209(1)
8.1 Duress
209(1)
8.1.1 Sources of the duress
210(1)
8.1.2 The seriousness of the threat
210(1)
8.1.3 Threats against whom?
211(1)
8.1.4 Imminence of the threat, opportunities to escape and police protection
212(2)
8.1.5 Duress does not exist in the abstract
214(1)
8.1.6 Voluntary exposure to risk of compulsion
214(3)
8.1.7 Should D have resisted the threats?
217(3)
8.1.8 The scope of the defence
220(5)
8.1.9 The development of duress of circumstances
225(3)
8.2 Necessity
228(6)
8.3 Marital coercion
234(1)
8.4 Mistake
234(2)
8.4.1 Mistakes of fact
234(2)
8.4.2 Mistakes of law
236(1)
8.5 Self-defence and related defences
236(17)
8.5.1 The necessity of force
237(5)
8.5.2 The reasonableness of force
242(3)
8.5.3 Intoxication, mistake and self-defence
245(2)
8.5.4 `Grossly disproportionate' force in `householder' cases
247(5)
8.5.5 Should excessive force in homicide reduce murder to manslaughter?
252(1)
8.6 Consent
253(22)
8.6.1 Consent must be real
254(1)
8.6.2 Consent and fraud
254(3)
8.6.3 The scope of consent
257(11)
8.6.4 The impact of the European Convention on Human Rights (1950) and the Human Rights Act 1998
268(4)
Sample essay question
272(1)
Further reading
273(2)
9 Mental Capacity Defences
275(1)
9.1 Insanity
276(1)
9.1.1 Procedure
276(1)
9.1.2 The special verdict
277(6)
9.1.3 The M'Naghten Rules
283(2)
9.1.4 Situations not covered by the Rules
285(1)
9.1.5 Criticism and reform proposals
285(4)
9.2 Automatism
289(6)
9.2.1 What is automatism?
289(1)
9.2.2 The need for an evidential foundation
290(1)
9.2.3 Extent of involuntariness required
290(2)
9.2.4 Self-induced automatism
292(2)
9.2.5 Reflex actions
294(1)
9.2.6 Reform
294(1)
9.3 Intoxication
295(24)
9.3.1 Intoxication is no defence if D still formed mens rea
296(1)
9.3.2 Involuntary intoxication
297(3)
9.3.3 Voluntary intoxication
300(7)
9.3.4 `Dutch courage'
307(1)
9.3.5 Intoxication and insanity
307(2)
9.3.6 Intoxication and automatism
309(1)
9.3.7 Intoxicated mistakes
309(1)
9.3.8 Criticism and reform proposals
310(4)
Sample essay questions
314(3)
Further reading
317(2)
PART II SPECIFIC OFFENCES
319(2)
10 Homicide
321(1)
10.1 Actus reus of homicide
321(1)
10.1.1 Human being: birth
321(1)
10.1.2 Human being: death
322(1)
10.1.3 Under the King or Queen's Peace
322(1)
10.1.4 Within any county of the realm
323(1)
10.1.5 The year and a day rule
323(1)
10.2 Murder
324(3)
10.2.1 Intention
324(1)
10.2.2 Grievous bodily harm
325(1)
10.2.3 Procedure in murder trials
325(1)
10.2.4 Mercy killings and euthanasia
326(1)
10.3 Voluntary manslaughter
327(32)
10.3.1 Diminished responsibility
327(17)
10.3.2 Loss of self-control
344(14)
10.3.3 Suicide pacts
358(1)
10.4 Involuntary manslaughter
359(16)
10.4.1 Constructive manslaughter
359(7)
10.4.2 Gross negligence manslaughter
366(8)
10.4.3 Reckless manslaughter
374(1)
10.4.4 Reform
374(1)
10.6 Causing death by dangerous driving
375(2)
10.7 Infanticide
377(3)
10.8 Offences against a foetus
380(1)
10.8.1 Child destruction
380(1)
10.8.2 Procuring a miscarriage
380(1)
10.9 Reform of the law of homicide
381(12)
10.9.1 The structure of homicide offences
382(1)
10.9.2 First-degree murder
382(1)
10.9.3 Second-degree murder
382(1)
10.9.4 Manslaughter
383(1)
10.9.5 Intention
383(1)
10.9.6 Duress
383(1)
10.9.7 A single offence of criminal homicide?
383(5)
Sample essay questions
388(2)
Further reading
390(3)
11 Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
393(1)
11.1 Common assault
394(1)
11.1.1 Actus reus of assault
394(2)
11.1.2 Actus reus of battery
396(5)
11.1.3 Mens rea of assault and battery
401(1)
11.2 Section 47
402(5)
11.2.1 Actus reus of s 47
403(1)
11.2.2 Mens rea of s 47
404(1)
11.2.3 Consent and s 47
405(2)
11.3 Section 20
407(4)
11.3.1 Actus reus of s 20
407(2)
11.3.2 Mens rea of s 20
409(2)
11.4 Section 18
411(2)
11.4.1 Actus reus of s 18
411(1)
11.4.2 Mens rea of s 18
411(2)
11.5 Reform
413(4)
11.6 Racially or religiously aggravated assaults
417(1)
11.7 Administering poison
417(6)
11.7.1 Administer
418(1)
11.7.2 Noxious thing
418(1)
11.7.3 Maliciously
419(2)
Sample essay question
421(1)
Further reading
422(1)
12 Sexual Offences
423(1)
12.1 Rape
424(1)
12.1.1 Penetration of the vagina, anus or mouth of another person, with the penis
425(1)
12.1.2 The absence of consent
426(15)
12.1.3 Intent to penetrate
441(1)
12.1.4 Lack of reasonable belief
441(2)
12.1.5 The marital exception to rape
443(1)
12.1.6 Women as defendants
443(1)
12.2 Assault by penetration
443(2)
12.3 Sexual assault
445(3)
12.4 Causing a person to engage in sexual activity
448(1)
12.5 Administering a substance with intent
448(1)
12.6 Committing an offence with intent to commit a sexual offence
449(1)
12.7 Trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence
449(1)
12.8 Other crimes under the Sexual Offences Act 2003
450(5)
Sample essay question
451(2)
Further reading
453(2)
13 Theft
455(1)
13.1 Background
455(1)
13.1.1 Theft
456(1)
13.1.2 The elements of theft
457(1)
13.2 Appropriation
457(1)
13.2.1 Assumption of the rights of an owner
458(1)
13.2.2 Consent to the appropriation
459(1)
13.2.3 The decision in Gomez
460(4)
13.2.4 Consent without deception
464(2)
13.2.5 Appropriation of credit balances
466(2)
13.2.6 Protection of innocent purchasers
468(1)
13.3 Property
469(4)
13.3.1 Things which cannot be stolen
470(1)
13.3.2 Real property
471(1)
13.3.3 Things in action
472(1)
13.3.4 Other intangible property
472(1)
13.4 Belonging to another
473(7)
13.4.1 Possession or control
474(1)
13.4.2 Proprietary right or interest
475(2)
13.4.3 Property received under an obligation
477(1)
13.4.4 Property got by a mistake
478(2)
13.5 Dishonestly
480(5)
13.5.1 Dishonesty
480(1)
13.5.2 The meaning of `dishonesty': from Feeley (1973) to Ghosh (1982) to Ivey (2017)
481(2)
13.5.3 Problems with the Ghosh test
483(1)
13.5.4 The Ivey test
484(1)
13.6 With intention to permanently deprive
485(8)
13.6.1 Borrowing or lending
487(1)
13.6.2 Conditional disposition
488(3)
Sample essay question
491(1)
Further reading
492(1)
14 Robbery, Burglary and Other Offences in the Theft Acts
493(1)
14.1 Robbery
493(1)
14.1.1 The actus reus of robbery
494(1)
14.1.2 Theft as an element of robbery
494(1)
14.1.3 Force or threat of force
495(2)
14.1.4 Force immediately before or at the time of the theft
497(2)
14.1.5 Force in order to steal
499(1)
14.1.6 Mens rea for robbery
499(1)
14.1.7 Possible reform of law of robbery
499(2)
14.2 Burglary
501(6)
14.2.1 The actus reus of burglary
501(1)
14.2.2 Entry
502(1)
14.2.3 Building or part of a building
503(1)
14.2.4 As a trespasser
503(2)
14.2.5 Mens rea of burglary
505(1)
14.2.6 Burglary of a dwelling
505(2)
14.3 Aggravated burglary
507(2)
14.3.1 Has with him
508(1)
14.4 Removal of items from a place open to the public
509(1)
14.4.1 Actus reus of removal of items from a public place
509(1)
14.5 Taking a conveyance without consent
509(4)
14.5.1 Actus reus of taking a conveyance
510(1)
14.5.2 Without consent
511(1)
14.5.3 Conveyance
512(1)
14.5.4 Mens rea of taking a conveyance
512(1)
14.6 Aggravated vehicle-taking
513(1)
14.6.1 Dangerous driving
513(1)
14.6.2 Injury or damage
513(1)
14.7 Abstracting electricity
514(1)
14.8 Blackmail
514(5)
14.8.1 Demand
515(1)
14.8.2 Unwarranted demand
515(2)
14.8.3 Menaces
517(1)
14.8.4 View to gain or loss
518(1)
14.9 Handling stolen goods
519(5)
14.9.1 Goods
519(1)
14.9.2 Stolen
520(1)
14.9.3 Handling
521(1)
14.9.4 Undertaking or assisting
522(1)
14.9.5 Mens rea of handling
523(1)
14.10 Going equipped for stealing
524(3)
14.10.1 Actus reus of going equipped
524(3)
14.10.2 Mens rea of going equipped
527(1)
14.11 Making off without payment
527(6)
14.11.1 Actus reus of making off without payment
527(1)
14.11.2 Mens rea of making off without payment
528(3)
Sample essay question
531(1)
Further reading
532(1)
15 Fraus
533(1)
15.1 Background to the Fraud Act 2006
533(1)
15.2 The need for reform
534(1)
15.2.1 Proposals for reform
535(1)
15.3 Fraud Act 2006
536(1)
15.4 Fraud by false representation
536(1)
15.4.1 False representation
536(4)
15.4.2 False
540(1)
15.4.3 Gain or loss
540(2)
15.4.4 Mens rea of s 2
542(2)
15.5 Fraud by failing to disclose information
544(2)
15.5.1 Legal duty
544(2)
15.5.2 Mens rea of s 3
546(1)
15.6 Fraud by abuse of position
546(4)
15.6.1 Occupies a position
546(2)
15.6.2 Abuse of position
548(1)
15.6.3 Mens rea of s 4
549(1)
15.7 Possession of articles for use in fraud
550(1)
15.7.1 Mens rea of s 6
550(1)
15.8 Making or supplying articles for use in frauds
551(1)
15.8.1 Mens rea of s 7
552(1)
15.9 Obtaining services dishonestly
552(7)
15.9.1 Actus reus of obtaining services dishonestly
553(1)
15.9.2 Mens rea of obtaining services dishonestly
553(3)
Sample essay question
556(2)
Further reading
558(1)
16 Criminal Damage
559(1)
16.1 The basic offence
559(1)
16.1.1 Destroy or damage
560(2)
16.1.2 Property
562(1)
16.1.3 Belonging to another
563(1)
16.1.4 Mens rea of the basic offence
563(4)
16.1.5 Without lawful excuse
567(4)
16.2 Endangering life
571(4)
16.2.1 Danger to life
571(1)
16.2.2 Life not actually endangered
572(1)
16.2.3 Own property
573(1)
16.2.4 Mens rea
573(2)
16.3 Arson
575(1)
16.4 Threats to destroy or damage property
576(1)
16.5 Possessing anything with intent to destroy or damage property
577(1)
16.6 Racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage
577(6)
Sample essay question
580(1)
Further reading
581(2)
17 Public Order Offences
583(1)
17.1 Riot
583(1)
17.1.1 The actus reus of riot
584(1)
17.1.2 Mens rea of riot
585(1)
17.1.3 Trial and penalty
586(1)
17.2 Violent disorder
586(1)
17.2.1 Present together
586(1)
17.2.2 Mens rea of violent disorder
587(1)
17.2.3 Comparison with riot
587(1)
17.2.4 Trial and penalty
588(1)
17.3 Affray
588(2)
17.3.1 Actus reus of affray
588(1)
17.3.2 Mens rea of affray
589(1)
17.3.3 Trial and penalty
589(1)
17.4 Fear or provocation of violence
590(2)
17.4.1 Actus reus of a s 4 offence
590(1)
17.4.2 Threatening, abusive or insulting
591(1)
17.4.3 Towards another person
591(1)
17.4.4 Mens rea of s 4
591(1)
17.5 Intentionally causing harassment, alarm or distress
592(3)
17.5.1 Defences
594(1)
17.6 Harassment, alarm or distress
595(9)
17.6.1 Defences
598(1)
17.6.2 Mens rea of a s 5 offence
599(1)
17.6.3 Section 5 and freedom of expression
599(5)
17.7 Racially or religiously aggravated public order offences
604(3)
Sample essay question
600(6)
Further reading
606(1)
Appendix 1 607(2)
Appendix 2 609(6)
Glossary of legal terminology 615(2)
Index 617
Tony Storey is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Northumbria where he teaches Criminal Law, EU Law, Sports Law and the English Legal System.