Product Description

"Text, Cases and Materials on Criminal Law" offers an exciting and accessible introduction to criminal law. It provides students with a detailed knowledge of the law and includes extensive discussion on the theoretical issues raised by the law. The elements of important criminal offences are clearly explained. Extracts from the most important cases are included so that students can learn about the key judicial pronouncements on criminal law. Criminal offences are set in their social context and the wider philosophical and ethical issues raised by the crimes are discussed. The text summaries the key arguments that academic commentators have made in straight-forward terms and provides interesting and stimulating extracts. In all it is a mini criminal law library in one volume.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #423820 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 996 pages

Review
Jonathan Herring's Criminal Law is an excellent attempt to provide something that fulfils a number of requirements... his book offers a text, his explanation and a discussion of the standard topics that arise in almost every undergraduate criminal law syllabus." The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 2005

About the Author
Jonathan Herring is a Fellow in Law at Exeter College, Oxford. He was previously Lecturer in Law, Christ Church, Oxford and Fellow in Law, New Hall, Cambridge

Customer Reviews

Very concise yet not too complex
This is a wonderful textbook for all Law students studying criminal law. It helped me immensely with my essays and when it came to revision for exams. It is written in a concise yet friendly manner which is so easy to understand.
I would highly recomend this book as a must for anyone studying criminal law.

The best introduction to criminal law I have read
I bought this book to help me get up to date on criminal law before some work experience & really wished I had had it when studying criminal law. It lays everything out incredibly clearly & tells you about the issues & cases you need to know to pass an exam. Highly recommended.

A great book
I bought this book as some extra reading for part of my Open University Law Degree. It is written in an easy to read way and provided clear arguments on many cruical issues. Studying with the OU you tend to have to work things out for yourself from cases and workbooks. This book was much easier to understand than the textbooks provided with the course. The section on Consent as a defence was excellent and helped me get 88% for my essay! Nice one. I also found it great for revision.

I have previosuly bought "Legal Method" from the same series and intend to by the Tort and Contract books for my continuing studies.