J J Child is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Birmingham and Co-founding Director of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network.AP Simester is Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Theory at the National University of Singapore, and Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King's College London, UK.Findlay Stark is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK.GJ Virgo is Professor of English Private Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.John Stanton-Ife is a Senior Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London.

Review for previous edition: [This] textbook remains one of, if not the, leading criminal law textbook in England and Wales. It is one of the few textbooks available that engages in a detailed exposition of the doctrinal criminal law while simultaneously engaging with the criminal law’s theoretical underpinning.

• 1. Criminal Law: Definition and Ambit 2. The Rule of Law and the European Convention on Human Rights 3. Interpretation and Proof4. The Actus Reus5. Mens Rea 6. Strict and Constructive Liability 7. Secondary Participation 8. Vicarious and Corporate Liability 9. The Inchoate Offences 10. Homicide 11. Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person 12. The Principal Sexual Offences 13. Theft 14. Related Offences 15. Fraud 16. The Moral Limitations of Criminalisation17. Defences: An Overview18. Failure of Proof19. Irresponsibility Defences20. Defences of Circumstantial Pressure21. Permissible Conduct22. Defences and Blame: Some Observations

J J Child is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Birmingham and Co-founding Director of the Criminal Law Reform Now Network.AP Simester is Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Theory at the National University of Singapore, and Edmund-Davies Professor of Criminal Law at King's College London, UK.Findlay Stark is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, UK.GJ Virgo is Professor of English Private Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.John Stanton-Ife is a Senior Lecturer at The Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London.

Review for previous edition: [This] textbook remains one of, if not the, leading criminal law textbook in England and Wales. It is one of the few textbooks available that engages in a detailed exposition of the doctrinal criminal law while simultaneously engaging with the criminal law’s theoretical underpinning.

• 1. Criminal Law: Definition and Ambit 2. The Rule of Law and the European Convention on Human Rights 3. Interpretation and Proof4. The Actus Reus5. Mens Rea 6. Strict and Constructive Liability 7. Secondary Participation 8. Vicarious and Corporate Liability 9. The Inchoate Offences 10. Homicide 11. Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person 12. The Principal Sexual Offences 13. Theft 14. Related Offences 15. Fraud 16. The Moral Limitations of Criminalisation17. Defences: An Overview18. Failure of Proof19. Irresponsibility Defences20. Defences of Circumstantial Pressure21. Permissible Conduct22. Defences and Blame: Some Observations