1st Edition

Course Notes: Criminal Law

By Lisa Cherkassky Copyright 2012
376 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

372 Pages
by Routledge

Course Notes is designed to help you succeed in your law examinations and assessments. Each guide supports revision of an undergraduate and conversion GDL/CPE law degree module by demonstrating good practice in creating and maintaining ideal notes. Course Notes will support you in actively and effectively learning the material by guiding you through the demands of compiling the information... Read more
1. Introduction to Criminal Law
2. Actus Reus and Causation
3. Mens rea
4. Strict liability
5. Parties to a crime
6. Capacity
7. General defences
8. Homicide
9. Non-fatal offences against the person
10. Sexual offences
11. Theft
12. Robbery, burglary and other offences under the Theft Acts
13. Fraud
14. Criminal Damage
Additional chapters on Inchoate offences, and Public order offences can be found on the companion website, www.hodderplus.co.uk/law

Biography

Lisa Cherkassky, LLB, LLM, FHEA, is Lecturer in Law at Bradford University Law School.

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Dr. L Trickett, Nottingham Law School, UK

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