The fifth edition of Ashworth's highly regarded textbook incorporates all the recent developments in criminal law, including the Sexual Offences Act 2003, and addresses current controversies such as the debate over the shape of the law of murder and manslaughter; including discussion of the Law Commission's Consultation Paper.
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`Review from previous edition Ashworth provides an elegant and authoritative account of the underlying principles , policies and doctrines of the criminal law ' Russell Heaton, Nottingham Law Journal 2004 Vol 13(1)
`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
`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
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Andrew Ashworth is Vinerian Professor of English Law at University of 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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