Smith and Hogan's criminal law / David Ormerod, Law Commissioner for England and Wales, Professor of Criminal Justice, University College London, Barrister, Bencher of Middle Temple, Door Tenant at 18 Red Lion Chambers; Karl Laird, Lecturer in Law St Edmund Hall, Oxford Team Lawyer, Law Commission of England and Wales.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1289-1290) and index.

Machine generated contents note: pt. I General Principles
1.Defining crime
1.1.A universal definition of `a crime'?
1.2.A universal purpose in criminal law?
1.3.Universal characteristics of a crime?
1.4.Conclusion
2.Sources of criminal law
2.1.Common law
2.2.Statute
2.3.EU
2.4.International law
2.5.The ECHR and Human Rights Act 1998
2.6.A criminal code
3.Procedure and sentencing
3.1.Classification of offences
3.2.Procedure
3.3.Crime and punishment
3.4.Wrongdoing and punishment
3.5.Criminal appeals
4.The elements of a crime: actus reus
4.1.Introduction
4.2.Analysis of an actus reus
4.3.A `state of affairs' as an actus reus
4.4.Omissions
4.5.Causation
5.The elements of a crime: mens rea
5.1.Introduction
5.2.Forms of mens rea
5.3.Further principles of mens rea
6.Crimes of negligence
6.1.Negligence as failure to comply with an objective standard
6.2.Negligence as the basis of liability
Contents note continued: 6.3.Degrees of negligence
6.4.Should negligence be a ground of liability?
7.Crimes of strict liability
7.1.The nature of strict liability
7.2.The presumption of mens rea
7.3.Recognizing offences of strict liability
7.4.Arguments for and against strict liability
7.5.Negligence/​lack of due diligence as a preferred approach
8.Parties to crime
8.1.Introduction
8.2.Bases of liability
8.3.The principal offender
8.4.Basic secondary liability
8.5.Joint enterprise liability
8.6.Secondary participation and inchoate offences
8.7.The relationship between the liability of the principal and secondary party
8.8.Withdrawal by a secondary party
8.9.Victims as parties to crime
8.10.Instigation for the purpose of entrapment
8.11.Reform of secondary liability
9.Assistance after the offence
9.1.Impeding the apprehension or prosecution of offenders
9.2.Compounding an offence
9.3.Refusal to aid a constable
Contents note continued: 9.4.Reform
10.Corporate and vicarious liability
10.1.Liability of corporations
10.2.Vicarious liability
11.Mental conditions, intoxication and mistake
11.1.Introduction
11.2.Insanity
11.3.Sane automatism
11.4.Intoxication
11.5.Combined, consecutive and concurrent causes of loss of capacity
11.6.Mistake
12.General defences
12.1.Infancy
12.2.Duress
12.3.Necessity
12.4.Marital coercion
12.5.Superior orders
12.6.Public and private defence
12.7.Entrapment
12.8.Impossibility
13.Inchoate crime
13.1.Introduction
13.2.Attempt
13.3.Conspiracy
13.4.Encouragement and assistance under the Serious Crime Act 2007
13.5.Inchoate crime and impossibility
pt. II Particular Crimes
14.Murder
14.1.Definition
14.2.The sentence for murder
14.3.Proposals for reform of murder
15.Manslaughter
15.1.Loss of self-control
15.2.Diminished responsibility
15.3.Involuntary manslaughter
Contents note continued: 15.4.The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
16.Further homicide and related offences
16.1.Offences ancillary to murder
16.2.Complicity in suicide and suicide pacts
16.3.Infanticide
16.4.The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Acts 2004 and 2012
16.5.Child destruction and abortion
16.6.Genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
16.7.The War Crimes Act 1991
17.Non-fatal offences against the person
17.1.Assault and battery
17.2.Defences to assault and battery
17.3.Assault occasioning actual bodily harm
17.4.Wounding and grievous bodily harm: OAPA 1861, s 20
17.5.Section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861
17.6.Torture and slavery
17.7.Reform
17.8.Racially or religiously aggravated assaults
17.9.Aggravated assaults
17.10.Ill-treatment or neglect
17.11.Administering poison
17.12.False imprisonment
17.13.Kidnapping
17.14.Other abduction offences
Contents note continued: 17.15.Harassment
17.16.Offensive weapons
17.17.Hoax offences
18.Sexual offences
18.1.Introduction
18.2.Recurring fundamental concepts in the 2003 Act
18.3.Non-consensual offences
18.4.Offences against children under 13 (ss 5-8)
18.5.Sexual offences against children aged 13 to 15
18.6.Offences of abuse of trust
18.7.Family offences
18.8.Offences involving mental disorder
18.9.Other sexual offences
18.10.Overarching problems with the 2003 Act
18.11.Reform
19.Theft
19.1.Interpreting the Theft Acts
19.2.The offence of theft
19.3.Actus reus
19.4.Mens rea
19.5.Corporations and their officers
19.6.Liability of spouses and civil partners for Theft Act offences
19.7.Reform
20.Robbery
20.1.Robbery under the Theft Act 1968
21.Offences of temporary deprivation
21.1.Removal of articles from places open to the public
21.2.Taking conveyances
21.3.Aggravated vehicle-taking
Contents note continued: 22.Making off without payment
22.1.Making off under the Theft Act 1978
23.The Fraud Act 2006
23.1.Background
23.2.The general fraud offence
23.3.Section 2: fraud by false representation
23.4.Section 3: fraud by failing to disclose information
23.5.Section 4: fraud by abuse of position
23.6.Section 11: obtaining services dishonestly
23.7.Section 6: possession of articles for fraud
23.8.Section 7: making or supplying articles for use in frauds
24.Other offences involving fraud
24.1.False accounting
24.2.Corporations and their officers
24.3.False statements by company directors
24.4.Suppression of documents
24.5.Cheating the public revenue
25.Blackmail and related offences
25.1.Blackmail
25.2.Unlawful harassment of debtors
25.3.Other offences based on threats
26.Burglary and related offences
26.1.Burglary
26.2.Burglary in respect of a dwelling
26.3.Aggravated burglary
Contents note continued: 26.4.Trespass with intent to commit a sexual offence
26.5.Going equipped
26.6.Other trespass offences
27.Handling and related offences
27.1.Handling stolen goods
27.2.Dishonestly retaining a wrongful credit
27.3.Advertising for the return of stolen goods
27.4.Money laundering
28.Forgery
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29.Offences of damage to property
29.1.Destroying or damaging property of another
29.2.Destroying or damaging property with intent to endanger life
29.3.Arson
29.4.Racially or religiously aggravated criminal damage
29.5.Threats to destroy or damage property
29.6.Possession offences
29.7.Kindred offences
29.8.Mode of trial and sentence
30.Computer misuse offences
30.1.Introduction
30.2.Unauthorized access to computer material
30.3.Unauthorized access with intent to commit or facilitate further offences
Contents note continued: 30.4.Unauthorized acts with intent to impair or recklessness as to impairment of a computer
30.5.Making, supplying or obtaining articles for use in offences unders 1 or s 3: s 3A
31.Obscene communication and publication offences
31.1.Obscene publications
31.2.Obscenity in the theatre
31.3.Extreme pornography
31.4.Possession of prohibited images of children
31.5.Posting indecent or obscene matter
31.6.Other offensive communications offences
31.7.Indecent displays
31.8.Outraging public decency
31.9.Common law offences of blasphemy, libel and sedition
32.Offences against public order
32.1.The Public Order Act 1986
32.2.Riot
32.3.Violent disorder
32.4.Affray
32.5.Fear or provocation of violence
32.6.Harassment, alarm or distress
32.7.Intentional harassment, alarm or distress
32.8.Racially or religiously aggravated public order offences
32.9.Other public assembly-related offences
Contents note continued: 32.10.Stirring up hatred on grounds of race, religion or sexual orientation
32.11.Public nuisance
33.Road traffic offences
33.1.Background to the legislation
33.2.Dangerous driving
33.3.Careless and inconsiderate driving
33.4.Causing death by driving
33.5.Causing serious injury by dangerous driving.