This new edition of Andrew Ashworth's popular and authoritative textbook has been fully revised and updated to incorporate all recent changes in the field of criminal law since the publication of the last edition in 1999. It addresses the underlying principles and rationales of criminal law, and has a more theoretical and stimulating approach than standard textbooks. It is an accessible, readable text that provides students with a depth and maturity of analysis. The extent to which Andrew Ashworth engages with the principles of the law is unsurpassed by other works. The new edition includes further discussion of the impact of Human Rights Act.
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`Review from previous edition Clear and explicit with a very good critical insight.' Dr. Spencer, Manchester University
`A valuable addition to the libraries of all criminal lawyers...a comprehensive, eloquent work on criminal law principles and their application' The Criminal Law Quarterly
`This book will become a classic introduction for law students...coherent and accessible...its insight will stimulate all but the most cynical observer of the operation of criminal law in England and Wales.' Times Higher Education Supplement
`A valuable addition to the libraries of all criminal lawyers...a comprehensive, eloquent work on criminal law principles and their application' The Criminal Law Quarterly
`This book will become a classic introduction for law students...coherent and accessible...its insight will stimulate all but the most cynical observer of the operation of criminal law in England and Wales.' Times Higher Education Supplement
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Andrew Ashworth is Vinerian Professor of English Law at All Souls College, Oxford
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negative fault requirements, positive fault requirements, moral involuntariness, constructive liability, inchoate mode, advertent recklessness, reckless knowledge, inchoate offences, high maximum penalties, transferred fault, unforeseen mode, deception offences, fair labelling, intoxication rules, substantive offence, draft criminal code, maximum certainty, dishonesty offences, conduct element, fault element, basic offence, proscribed harm, statutory conspiracy, innocent agency, accessorial liability Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Court of Appeal, House of Lords, Law Commission, Theft Act, Model Penal Code, Public Order Act, Sexual Offences Act, Home Office, European Convention, New Homicide Act, Crown Court, Human Rights Act, Attorney-General's Reference, Divisional Court, Criminal Justice Act, Lord Bingham, Privy Council, United Kingdom, Lord Lane, United States, Glanville Williams, Legal Studies, Supreme Court, Excusing Crime, Lord Steyn New!
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negative fault requirements, positive fault requirements, moral involuntariness, constructive liability, inchoate mode, advertent recklessness, reckless knowledge, inchoate offences, high maximum penalties, transferred fault, unforeseen mode, deception offences, fair labelling, intoxication rules, substantive offence, draft criminal code, maximum certainty, dishonesty offences, conduct element, fault element, basic offence, proscribed harm, statutory conspiracy, innocent agency, accessorial liability Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Court of Appeal, House of Lords, Law Commission, Theft Act, Model Penal Code, Public Order Act, Sexual Offences Act, Home Office, European Convention, New Homicide Act, Crown Court, Human Rights Act, Attorney-General's Reference, Divisional Court, Criminal Justice Act, Lord Bingham, Privy Council, United Kingdom, Lord Lane, United States, Glanville Williams, Legal Studies, Supreme Court, Excusing Crime, Lord Steyn New!
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