Table of Contents

PART I. General Principles
1: Defining crime
2: The sources of criminal law
3: Procedure and sentencing
4: The elements of a crime: actus reus
5: The elements of a crime: mens rea
6: Crimes of negligence
7: Crimes of strict liability
8: Parties to crime
9: Assistance after the offence
10: Corporate and vicarious liability
11: Mental conditions, intoxication and mistake
12: General defences
13: Inchoate crime
PART II. Particular Crimes
14: Murder
15: Manslaughter
16: Further homicide and related offences
17: Non-fatal offences against the person
18: Sexual offences
19: Theft
20: Robbery
21: Offences of temporary deprivation
22: Making off without Payment
23: The Fraud Act 2006
24: Other fraud offences
25: Blackmail and related offences
26: Burglary and related offences
27: Handling and related offences
28: Forgery (Free Online Chapter)
29: Offences of damages to property
30: Computer misuse offences
31: Obscenity
32: Offences against public order
33: Road traffic offences
Bibliography (Free Online)
Index

About the Author

Professor David Ormerod is a Law Commissioner for England and Wales having taken up this position in September 2010. He is also professor of criminal justice at Queen Mary University of London along with Bencher of Middle Temple and Door Tenant at 18 Red Lion Court.

Reviews

`For anyone looking for an authoritative, clear and stimulating discussion of criminal law, they need not look any further than Smith & Hogan's Criminal Law.'
The Student Law Journal, December 2012
`Its written style is excellent: being both practical while scholarly meaning it is a vital text for both students and practitioners.'
The Student Law Journal, December 2012
Review from previous edition Under Professor Ormerod's editorship Smith and Hogan has gone from strength to strength, and the 12th edition has an unrivalled claim to be the first work which the courts should turn in search of a clear and authoritative explanation of the law. (Professor Jeremy Horder, University of Oxford)