Preface

Publisher’s acknowledgements

Table of cases

Table of statutes

Table of statutory instruments

Table of United States legislation

Table of international conventions

Abbreviations

Part I Introduction

1 Understanding criminal law

2 Decisions to criminalise

3 Punishment

Part II General principles of criminal liability

4 Actus reus

5 Causation

6 Mens rea

7 Strict Liability

8 Relationship between actus reus and mens rea

9 Defences (1)

10 Defences (2): affirmative defences

Part III Offences against the person

11 Non-fatal offences

12 Sexual Offences

13 Homicide

Part IV Property Offences

14 Theft

15 Fraud and making off without payment

16 Other property offences

17 Criminal damage

Part V Inchoate offences and complicity

18 Inchoate offences

19 Complicity

Bibliography

Index