Criminal Law (Core Texts Series)

by NicolaPadfield (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $8.92

  The Core Text Series provides students with reliable, concise, value-for-money coverage of key legal disciplines. Each title in the series seeks to strip its subject to the core - identifying the fundamental principles which underlie it and concentrating on the most important topics - while continuing to point out the intellectual challenges and difficulties within it. The result is a range of texts which take you straight to the heart of their subject matter by providing a succinct and reliable account of the current law. Written by leading academic authors, titles in the series are invaluable guides for students of law at all levels. Now in its sixth edition, this popular text offers a stimulating account of the key topics in criminal law illustrated through numerous case summaries. It also includes an exposition of recent academic commentary and Governmental Reforms including, homicide, muder and aiding and abetting. The coloured text design enables easy navigation throughout the text highlighting the summaries of key cases.Online Resource Centre Students are able to consolidate their own learning through the chapter summaries, further reading and self-test question sections of the book, which are now supplemented with an accompanying Online Resource Centre which provides hints on how to answer the questions posed in the textbook. The Online Resource Centre also includes a range of published articles by the author, providing easily accessible further reading for students.

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.27

  Butterworths Core Text Series provides students with books which cover the core of a particular subject without over-simplifying and in a way that is accessible, yet authoritative - at an affordable price. This book is part text, part case study, with substantial statute and case citations which lead the student to the heart of the subject, and references to academic analysis and to law reform proposals intended to highlight the many challenges and difficulties of the subject.This third edition has been fully updated and takes into account key changes including: The House of Lords' decisions in Hinks (theft) and Smith (provocation) The impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 Other changes particular in the law of sexual offences (including the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000) Developments in defences (self-defence, entrapment, reasonable chastisement etc) Recent academic commentaries/analyses