Description
Book SynopsisCriminal Law: Cases and Commentary, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of this now established criminal law text book staple. This Second Edition includes new chapters on the following topics: Road Traffic Offences, Drugs Offences, Regulatory Offences and Victims’ Rights. Recent legislative changes are considered including the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 and the Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Act 2017, as well as significant Supreme Court cases in the areas of the presumption of innocence (Forsey), reasonable access to a lawyer (Doyle), joint enterprise (Dekker), the right to silence (Sweeney), the exclusionary rule (JC) provocation (MacNamara), duress (Gleeson) and mistake (Casey). It provides students with a broad range of perspectives including formal case law, statutory and constitutional provisions, academic commentaries and Law Reform Commission policy recommendations. It combines domestic law with ECHR jurisprudence and persuasive authorities from other jurisdictions. Through a careful combination of the criminal rules along with excerpts from cases, articles, notes and texts, this book seeks to inform the user of the formal criminal law and provide a gateway to some of the more conceptual debates in the subject area.
Table of ContentsPart 1: Principles of Criminal Law • The Definition of a Crime • The Classification of Crime • Actus Reus • Mens Rea • The Inchoate Offence of Attempt • The Inchoate Offence of Conspiracy • Inchoate Offence of Incitement • Criminal Participation Part 2: Criminal Procedure • The Presumption of Innocence • Arrest • The Right to Silence • Powers of Detention • The Courts of Criminal Jurisdiction • Bail Part 3: Criminal Law Offences • Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person • Sexual Offences • Homicide • Offences Against Property • Offences of a Public Nature Against the State • Offences Against the Administration of Justice • Road Traffic Offences • Drugs Offences • Regulatory Offences Part 4: Defences • Defences – A Theoretical Guide • General Defences • Capacity Defences • Defences Specific to Murder Part 4: Victims’ Rights • Victims’ Rights
