- Paperback: 996 pages
- Publisher: OUP Oxford; Second Printing edition (11 Mar 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0198765789
- ISBN-13: 978-0198765783
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17 x 5.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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Jonathan Herring's Criminal Law is an excellent attempt to provide something that fulfils a number of requirements... his book offers a text, his explanation and a discussion of the standard topics that arise in almost every undergraduate criminal law syllabus." The Times Higher Education Supplement, May 2005
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Text, Cases and Materials on Criminal Law offers an exciting and accessible introduction to criminal law. It provides students with a detailed knowledge of the law and includes extensive discussion on the theoretical issues raised by the law. The elements of important criminal offences are clearly explained. Extracts from the most important cases are included so that students can learn about the key judicial pronouncements on criminal law. Criminal offences are set in their social context and the wider philosophical and ethical issues raised by the crimes are discussed. The text summaries the key arguments that academic commentators have made in straight-forward terms and provides interesting and stimulating extracts. In all it is a mini criminal law library in one volume.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book as some extra reading for part of my Open University Law Degree. It is written in an easy to read way and provided clear arguments on many cruical issues. Studying with the OU you tend to have to work things out for yourself from cases and workbooks. This book was much easier to understand than the textbooks provided with the course. The section on Consent as a defence was excellent and helped me get 88% for my essay! Nice one. I also found it great for revision.
I have previosuly bought "Legal Method" from the same series and intend to by the Tort and Contract books for my continuing studies.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book to help me get up to date on criminal law before some work experience & really wished I had had it when studying criminal law. It lays everything out incredibly clearly & tells you about the issues & cases you need to know to pass an exam. Highly recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was the only book that I had to read in my first year that I actually liked. It was clear and written in a kind of friendly way so that you felt like the writer was trying to explain things rather than prove how clever he was to understand such complicated things. I found the two section approach useful becuase I could start with the basics and stick with that side if I needed to like with intoxication or go over to the hard side with easier topics or so that i could write an essay. It is pretty mcuh like two books in one which is great bacuse it saves money too. The best thing is that it makes the topics interesting. My gran read the chapter on murder although I don't really know why and even she said it was great and kept telling me things that she knew. She said that she'd recommend it to anyone who wanted to write a detetctive story becuase they often get things about the law wrong and it really annoys her. I'd recoommend it to anyone studying criminal law.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
An excellent, engaging and even readable interpretation of the...
Despite this book not officially recognised as one of the most authoritative such as Smith and Hogan, it nevertheless presents a refreshing contrast to the more scholarly texts out... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Apocalyptic Queen
a must buy!
I was recommended to buy 'criminal law 7th edition' by jonathan herring by my University. I am on my second year of LLB and so far I have found this textbook to be very useful,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by LLB Student!
good book
this book is really good. i also used simester and sullivan and lacy (reconstructing criminal law) but this one is the best and most in depth. it got me a first.
Published 11 months ago by Simon Moston
The Best Criminal Law Text Book
This is a very good text book for beginners. It explains legal concepts clearly and includes relevant cases. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Philip Leung
criminal law book
the book is verry helpful for first year law students. it is precise and it gives referrences to relevant case law. Read more
Published 18 months ago by ulpianus
plenty of information
There seems to adequate information in this book, I have as yet not actually taken anything from it as it is for next semestar (good to get things in advance and a reasonable... Read more
Published on 19 Oct 2009 by leekbear
good service
book was in okay condition. happy with my purchase but i should have been told the book was highlighted inside. nevertheless im happy :)
Published on 18 May 2009 by Fauzy C
Well written, easy to understand!
I bought this book to help me with my ILEX criminal law exam. Anybody who has studied ILEX will appreciate that the text is not always written in the most user-friendly way! Read more
Published on 12 April 2009 by Lucy
Concise, written in an accessible style, uses plain english and still...
After having a bit of a battle with the recommended textbooks for Criminal Law when I studied it last year, I started looking around. Read more
Published on 17 Oct 2007 by D. S. Wiggins
Good but not the best
I recommended this text but then felt the need to warn students about some of the dangers of using it. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2007 by Lecturer
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