Building on "Principles of Criminal Law", this book provides an overview of the key aspects of criminal law doctrine as it applies in England and Wales. This fifth edition includes analysis of important case law and the impact of legislative reform of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000.
Modern Criminal Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions
The present book advances this promising scholarly and doctrinal project by making available key texts, including several not previously available in English translation, from the common law and civil law traditions, accompanied by ...
This, the fifth book in the series, offers a historical and conceptual account of the development of the modern criminal law in England and as it has spread to common law jurisdictions around the world.
This book challenges the assumptions of modern criminal law that insanity is a natural, legally and medically defined phenomenon (covering a range of medical disorders).
An ultrasound that day showed her to be between twenty-two and twenty-four weeks' pregnant. Two days later, LT said, the doctor placed a tablet in her vagina and gave her two more to take orally, saying that they 'will make it easier to ...
Case Studies in Criminal Justice: Melvin Purvis, FBI Agent Melvin Purvis (1903–1960), one of the best-known FBI agents of the ... application of duty has been necessary that to many of us it seemed foolish to go home” (Purvis, 1936, p.
The present book advances this promising scholarly and doctrinal project by making available key texts, including several not previously available in English translation, from the common law and civil law traditions, accompanied by ...
Modern Criminal Justice
Pearson L.J. laid stress upon words used in Smith's judgment, i.e. “in such a case as the present” indicating that the effect of the decision would, in the future, be limited to circumstances of the same nature.
Principles of Criminal Law: Cases, Comments, and Questions