Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law

Your gateway to criminal law: drawing on the exceptional clarity and authority of Smith and Hogan, with a wealth of unique supportive learning features and guidance on assessment. Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law takes students to the heart of this fascinating subject, providing focused, expert coverage alongside a wealth of student-friendly learning features to aid study. This is the perfect gateway into criminal law. - Combines the authority you would expect from a Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod title with numerous supportive learning features and an eye on developing analytical and assessment skills - The text offers a thorough, accessible, and unique introduction to criminal law for the student reader - Numerous learning features across the text highlight key cases, sources for extra reading, assessment advice, and flag common areas of confusion to avoid - Each chapter includes a section on reform including noted academic criticism of the law, furthering students' analytical understanding Digital formats and resources The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-test questions, videos, animated diagrams, audio introductions, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

1 - Introduction
2 - Actus reus
3 - Mens rea
4 - Interaction of actus reus and mens rea
5 - Murder
6 - Manslaughter
7 - Non-fatal offences against the person
8 - Sexual offences
9 - Property offences
10 - Fraud
11 - General inchoate offences
12 - Parties to crime
13 - Denial of an offence
14 - General defences

David Ormerod KC (Hon) is Professor of Criminal Justice at University College London, Deputy High Court Judge, and a Door Tenant at Red Lion Chambers. John Child is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Birmingham, Co-Director of the Birmingham Centre for Crime, Justice and Policing, and Co-Director of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network. Prior to this, John lectured at the University of Sussex and Oxford Brookes Law School.