Criminal law is a dynamic and popular element of all law degrees. Unlocking Criminal Law will ensure that you grasp the main concepts with ease providing you with an indispensable foundation in the subject. The book explains in detailed, yet straightforward, terms:
Background to criminal law
Homicide
Actus reus
Non-fatal offences against the person
Mens rea
Sexual offences
Strict liability
Theft
Parties to a crime
Robbery, burglary and other offences in the Theft Acts
Inchoate offences
Deception offences
Capacity
Criminal damage
General defences
Public order offences.
The Unlocking the Law series is designed specifically to make the law accessible. Each chapter opens with a list of aims and objectives, contains activities such as quick quizzes and self-test questions, key facts charts to consolidate your knowledge, and diagrams to aid learning. Cases and judgments are prominently displayed, as are primary source quotations. Summaries help check your understanding of each chapter and there is a glossary of legal terminology. New features include problem questions with guidance on answering, as well as essay questions and answer plans, plus cases and materials exercises.
The accompanying website www.unlockingthelaw.co.uk provides free resources such as multiple choice questions, key questions and answers, revision mp3s and cases and materials exercises.
- ISBN13 9781134649464
- Publish Date 7 June 2013 (first published 2 May 2013)
- Publish Status Permanently Withdrawn
- Out of Print 23 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Hodder Arnold
- Edition 4th New edition
- Format eBook
- Pages 592
- Language English