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Textbook of criminal law / Dennis J. Baker.

Title
Textbook of criminal law / Dennis J. Baker.
Author
Baker, Dennis J.
Publication
London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2012.

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Additional Authors
Williams, Glanville Llewelyn, 1911-1997.
Description
cxxvi, 1368 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
This volume is an exposition and evaluation of the criminal law. Now updated and rewritten for modern criminal law course, the author, Dennis Baker, brings back the classic style of Glanville Williams' insight but focused on modern criminal law today.
Alternative Title
Glanville Williams textbook of criminal law
Subject
Note
  • Rev. ed. of: Textbook of criminal law / by Glanville Williams. 2nd ed. London : Stevens, 1983.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
PART ONE : GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS: Crime and the criminal law -- Judge and jury -- The moral and constitutional limits of the criminal law -- Intention -- Recklessness and negligence -- Fault as to circumstances -- The external elements of an offence -- Causation -- PART TWO : THE PROTECTION OF THE PERSON: Non-fatal offences against the person -- Sexual aggression -- Murder -- Involuntary manslaughter -- The foetus and the new-born child -- PART THREE : INVOLVEMENT IN CRIME: Complicity -- Attempt -- Conspiracy -- Other inchoate offences -- PART FOUR : DEFENCES: Ignorance of law -- Intoxication -- Discipline and authority -- Private and public defence -- Loss of control -- Consent and entrapment -- Necessity -- Duress and coercion -- Automatism -- Criminal capacity and insanity -- Diminished responsibility -- PART FIVE : THE PROTECTION OF PROPERTY: Theft -- Robbery and similar offences -- Blackmail -- Burglary -- Handling stolen goods -- Fraud -- Damage and trespass -- Strict liability -- Attributed acts : vicarious liability -- Corporations : exceptions to strict liabiity.
ISBN
  • 0414046137
  • 9780414046139
OCLC
  • 776498999
  • SCSB-10120187
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library