Table of Contents

1: Criminal Justice and the Criminal Law
2: Criminalization
3: Principles and Policies
4: Criminal Conduct: Actus Reus, Causation and Permissions
5: Criminal Capacity, Mens Rea and Fault
6: Excusatory Defences
7: Homicide
8: Non-fatal Violations of the Person
9: Offences of Dishonesty
10: Complicity
11: Inchoate Offences

About the Author

Professor Andrew Ashworth is Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College, Oxford.
Jeremy Horder is the Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King's College London. From 2005-2010 he served as Law Commissioner for England and Wales.