Professor David Ormerod QC is Professor of Criminal Justice at University College London and a Deputy High Court Judge.Karl Laird is a Stipendiary Lecturer and Tutor in Law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has also taught at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, and at the LSE. He is a Barrister.

An indispensable resource - core materials together with extracts from relevant articles and key sources

• 1: Introduction 2: The elements of a crime 3: Causation 4: Omissions 5: Fault 6: Strict liability 7: Murder 8: Voluntary manslaughter 9: Involuntary manslaughter 10: Non-fatal offences against the person 11: Sexual offences 12: Theft 13: Robbery 14: Burglary and related offences 15: Fraud 16: Related offences in the Theft Acts 1968 and 1978 17: Offences of damage to property 18: Parties to offences 19: Attempt 20: Conspiracy 21: Assisting and encouraging: Serious Crime Act 2007, Part 2 22: General defences 23: Mental conditions 24: Intoxication 25: Liability of corporations

Professor David Ormerod QC is Professor of Criminal Justice at University College London and a Deputy High Court Judge.Karl Laird is a Stipendiary Lecturer and Tutor in Law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He has also taught at the Universities of Bristol and Cambridge, and at the LSE. He is a Barrister.

An indispensable resource - core materials together with extracts from relevant articles and key sources

• 1: Introduction 2: The elements of a crime 3: Causation 4: Omissions 5: Fault 6: Strict liability 7: Murder 8: Voluntary manslaughter 9: Involuntary manslaughter 10: Non-fatal offences against the person 11: Sexual offences 12: Theft 13: Robbery 14: Burglary and related offences 15: Fraud 16: Related offences in the Theft Acts 1968 and 1978 17: Offences of damage to property 18: Parties to offences 19: Attempt 20: Conspiracy 21: Assisting and encouraging: Serious Crime Act 2007, Part 2 22: General defences 23: Mental conditions 24: Intoxication 25: Liability of corporations