Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Horder
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Business Activity ◽  
Financial Crimes ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Ninth Edition ◽  
The Law ◽  
Criminal Conduct ◽  
Rules And Standards

Principles of Criminal Law takes a distinctly different approach to the study of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses. Uniquely theoretical, it seeks to elucidate the underlying principles and foundations of the criminal law, and aims to engage readers by analysing the law contextually. This ninth edition looks at issues such as the law’s history, criminal law values, alongside criminal conduct, actus reus, causation, and permissions; criminal capacity, mens rea, and fault, excusatory defences; homicide; non-fatal violations; property crimes; financial crimes; complicity; and inchoate offences. A special aim of the book is to bring an understanding of business activity-in particular small business activity-closer to the centre of the stage, in a discussion of the values protected by the criminal law, and of the way in which the law shapes its principles, rules, and standards. A large proportion of criminal offences are drafted with the conduct of businesses, as well as individuals, in mind.

2. Actus reus

2021 ◽  
pp. 34-78
Author(s):  
Michael J. Allen ◽  
Ian Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
The Law ◽  
State Of Affairs

Course-focused and contextual, Criminal Law provides a succinct overview of the key areas on the law curriculum balanced with thought-provoking contextual discussion. This chapter explains the concept of actus reus. It discusses the elements of crime, defining an actus reus, proving an actus reus, that conduct must be voluntary, state of affairs offences, omissions liability (situations in which a person will be liable for failing to act), causation (including the principles of factual and legal causation), and coincidence in time of actus reus and mens rea. ‘The law in context’ feature analyses critically English law’s approach to liability for causing another person’s suicide.

Criminal Law Concentrate

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Law

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. Criminal Law Concentrate covers fundamental principles of this area of law and helps the reader to succeed in exams. Topics covered include the basis of criminal liability, actus reus, mens rea, and strict liability. The chapters also examine offences such as non-fatal offences, sexual offences, homicide, inchoate offences, theft, and fraud. Defences are also examined in the final two chapters. This edition has been updated to include: recent developments in the law and new cases such as Jogee, Conroy, Golds, Ivey, and Joyce; more detail on sexual offences; more revision tips and tables to improve learning; and an ‘Exam essentials’ feature.

Criminal Law Concentrate

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Law

Each Concentrate revision guide is packed with essential information, key cases, revision tips, exam Q&As, and more. Concentrates show you what to expect in a law exam, what examiners are looking for, and how to achieve extra marks. Criminal Law Concentrate covers fundamental principles of this area of law and helps the reader to succeed in exams. Topics covered include the basis of criminal liability, actus reus, mens rea, and strict liability. The chapters also examine offences such as non-fatal offences, sexual offences, homicide, inchoate offences, theft, and fraud. Defences are also examined in the final two chapters. This edition has been updated to include: recent developments in the law and new cases such as Jogee, Conroy, Golds, Ivey, and Joyce; more detail on sexual offences; more revision tips and tables to improve learning; and an ‘Exam essentials’ feature.

Criminal Law

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Allen ◽  
Ian Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. Textbook on Criminal Law has been providing students of criminal law with a readable and reliable introduction to the subject for the past 28 years. This is the fifteenth edition, which has been updated to include all of the latest case law and statutory changes. Topics covered include actus reus, mens rea, negligence and strict liability, and capacity and incapacitating conditions. It also examines general defences, parties to crime, inchoate offences, and homicide. Towards the end of the book chapters consider non-fatal offences, sexual offences, offences under the Theft Acts 1968 and 1978, fraud, and criminal damage.

Criminal Law

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Allen ◽  
Ian Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
The Past ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law

Course-focused and comprehensive, the Textbook on series provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. Textbook on Criminal Law has been providing students of criminal law with a readable and reliable introduction to the subject for the past 30 years. This is the sixteenth edition, which has been updated to include all of the latest case law and statutory changes. Topics covered include actus reus, mens rea, negligence and strict liability, and capacity and incapacitating conditions. It also examines general defences, parties to crime, inchoate offences, and homicide. Towards the end of the book chapters consider non-fatal offences, sexual offences, offences under the Theft Acts 1968 and 1978, fraud, and criminal damage.

Criminal Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Part Structure ◽  
The Law

This edition of Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers an exceptional depth of analysis and a wealth of cases and materials all set within the theoretical context of criminal law. The two-part structure of each chapter in the book—the first part explaining the law as it is, the second examining the theoretical aspects—ensures that readers not only gain a secure understanding of the law itself but also acquire a fundamental appreciation of the surrounding philosophical and ethical debates. The book looks at actus reus and mens rea, and strict liability, and also examines homicide, non-fatal non-sexual offences, sexual offences, theft, handling, robbery, and fraud. It further analyses issues relating to burglary and blackmail, criminal damages, and defences, and finally, considers criminal liability of corporations, inchoate offences, and complicity.

5. Criminal conduct: actus reus, causation, and permissions

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-155
Author(s):  
Jeremy Horder
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Rules And Principles ◽  
General Part ◽  
The Law ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Mere Possession ◽  
Criminal Conduct ◽  
Act Requirement

This chapter focuses on the ‘general part’ of the criminal law—the rules and principles of the criminal law whose importance and application can be analysed and debated without necessarily referring to a specific crime. It first examines the limits of the notion of involuntary conduct. It then looks at various challenges to the ‘voluntary act’ requirement—where is the act if the law criminalizes the occurrence of a state of affairs, or mere possession? Next, it considers how the voluntary act requirement relates to crimes of omission. This is followed by discussions of causation and the circumstances in which conduct may be recognized as justifiable.

Structure and Nomenclature

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-50
Author(s):  
A P Simester
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Basic Framework ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
The Law ◽  
Physical Elements

This chapter discusses criminal law’s structure and working doctrines, offering some preliminary remarks about how the major legal doctrines relate to the principles identified in the previous chapter. In terms of the basic framework, it is conventional these days for common lawyers to divide up the law of crimes into three rather broad groupings: actus reus (the so-called ‘external’ or ‘physical’ elements of the crime); mens rea (the defendant’s mental state or, sometimes, the lack of it); and defences. The master question for criminal liability then becomes one of concurrence—is there a moment in time at which the actus reus and mens rea requirements of the offence are simultaneously satisfied, and there are no defences available? However, this threefold division is not clean, and the contents of each part are not independent of one another. The chapter presents a rough structural sketch of the criminal law.

Criminal Law

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Sexual Offences ◽  
Theoretical Context ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
Part Structure ◽  
The Law

This edition of Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials offers an exceptional depth of analysis and a wealth of cases and materials all set within the theoretical context of criminal law. The two-part structure of each chapter in the book—the first part explaining the law as it is, the second examining the theoretical aspects—ensures that readers not only gain a secure understanding of the law itself but also acquire a fundamental appreciation of the surrounding philosophical and ethical debates. The book looks at actus reus and mens rea, and strict liability, and also examines homicide, non-fatal non-sexual offences; sexual offences; theft, handling, robbery; and fraud. It further analyses issues relating to burglary and blackmail, criminal damage, and defences, and finally, considers the criminal liability of corporations, inchoate offences, and complicity.

scholarly journals The Pitfalls in the Law of Attempt: A New Perspective

2005 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Arenson
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
The Status ◽  
Actus Reus ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Law ◽  
New Perspective

The law of attempt is laden with some of the most hotly debated and controversial issues in the criminal law sphere. This article provides a critical and in-depth analysis of most, if not all, of the pitfalls that have bedevilled this area of the law since time immemorial. In particular, the discussion will focus on the type of mens rea required for an attempt, how far an accused must progress toward the commission of the subject offence in order to satisfy the actus reus component of an attempt, whether certain offences are intrinsically incapable of being the subject of an attempt, and whether the various courts and legislatures have agreed upon a universally accepted, coherent, and workable doctrine concerning the status of ‘factual impossibility’ as a defence to an attempt.

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