Glanville Williams & Dennis Baker treatise of criminal law / by Dennis Baker.

London : LexisNexis Butterworths, 2021.

5th edition

199298

Textbook of criminal law.

Criminal law -- England.

Criminal law -- Wales.

PART 1 —General Considerations

1. Capacity and choice: The ancient foundation of criminal responsibility --2. Substantive, procedural, and proof constraints in the criminal law --3. Intention --4. Recklessness and negligence --5. Fault as to circumstances --6. Strict liability --7. Attributed Acts: Vicarious liability --8. Corporations: Exceptions to strict liability --9. The external elements of an offence --PART 2 —The protection of the person --11. Non-fatal offences against the person --12. Sexual aggression --13. Murder --14. Involuntary Manslaughter --15. The focus and the new-born child --PART 3 —Complicity and inchoate liability --16. Complicity --17. Attempt --18. Conspiracy --19. Other inchoate offences --PART 4 —Defences --20. Ignorance of law and superior orders --21. Intoxication --22. Discipline and authority --23. Private and public defence --24. Loss of control --25. Necessity --26. Consent and entrapment --27. Duress and coercion --28. Automatism --29. Criminal capacity and insanity --30. Diminished responsibility --PART 5 —The protection of property --31. Theft --32. Fraud --33. Miscellaneous frauds and forgery --34. Robbery and similar offences --35. Blackmail --36. Burglary --37. Handling stolen goods --38. Damage and trespass --PART 6 —White-Collar Crimes --39. Companies, finance markets and insolvency offences --40. Bribery and corruption --41. Copyright and trade mark offences --42. Cybercrimes and artificial intelligence --43. Tax offences and social security fraud --44. Money laundering and the proceeds of crime --Index.

The updated edition of this title provides a practical evaluation of criminal law that no practitioner can afford to be without. Since the first edition in 1978, it has been acknowledged as the leading treatise on substantive criminal law in the common law world. It is a work of great magnitude and complexity, but it is written in an easy-to-follow style and format to assist practitioners of the law with the sorts of complex issues that arise in appeals. The work covers all the most important offences including white-collar and property offences. This edition covers the entirety of the general part including complicity, inchoate offences, and the relevant defences. It also covers a very wide range of special part offences against the person including homicide and all the sexual offences as set out in 71 sections of the Sexual Offences Act. Furthermore, it deals with offences concerning Extreme Pornography and Child Pornography. Other offences against the person covered include Aggravated Assault, Harassment, Stalking, Abduction and Kidnapping, Female Genital Mutilation, Neglect and Ill-treatment of Children and of Mental Patients, Causing or Allowing Harm to Children and Vulnerable Adults, Neglect by Care Workers, Coercive and Controlling Behaviour, Forced Marriages and Bigamy, Spreading Infectious Diseases and Taking Hostages and Torture. It also includes new chapters on a range of white-collar offences including: —Company and Personal Insolvency and Bankruptcy Offences; —Fraudulent Trading; —Purchasing Own Shares and Financial Assistance to Purchase Shares; —Offences Concerning Financial Services and Market Manipulation; —Insider Dealing; —The Cartel Offence; —Bribery; —Corruption and Misconduct in Public Office; —Forgery; —False Accounting; —Identity and Biometric Theft; —Suppression of Documents; —Trade Mark and Intellectual Property Offences; and —Money Laundering In addition, it covers all the property offences and provides a sophisticated and nuanced analysis of each. - Publisher's website.

Original author, Glanville Williams.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781474320184

ccv, 2333 pages ; 26 cm