Includes index.

Contents: Preliminary matters: Introduction to criminal law -- Murder and intent -- Criminal damage and recklessness -- General principles: Actus reus - Mens rea -- Strict liability -- Principal parties and secondary offenders -- Vicarious and corporate liability -- Infancy, duress, coercion, necessity, duress of circumstances -- Mistake, intoxication, self-defence -- Defences of mental disorder -- Inchoate offences -- Particular offences: Theft, robbery, pictures at an exhibition, taking without consent, abstracting electricity -- Obtaining by deception, making off without payment -- Blackmail, burglary, going equipped, handling -- Manslaughter -- Non-fatal offences -- Rape, indecent assault, bigamy --