Your gateway to criminal law: drawing on the exceptional clarity and authority of Smith and Hogan, with a wealth of unique supportive learning features and guidance on assessment.

Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law takes students to the heart of this fascinating subject, providing focused, expert coverage alongside a wealth of student-friendly learning features to aid study. This is the perfect gateway into criminal law.

- Combines the authority you would expect from a Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod title with numerous supportive learning features and an eye on developing analytical and assessment skills
- The text offers a thorough, accessible, and unique introduction to criminal law for the student reader
- Numerous learning features across the text highlight key cases, sources for extra reading, assessment advice, and flag common areas of confusion to avoid
- Each chapter includes a section on reform including noted academic criticism of the law, furthering students' analytical understanding

Digital formats and resources

The fifth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.

The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-test questions, videos, animated diagrams, audio introductions, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

TABLE OF CONTENTS :

1: Introduction
2: Actus reus
3: Mens rea
4: Interaction of actus reus and mens rea
5: Murder
6: Manslaughter
7: Non-fatal offences against the person
8: Sexual offences
9: Property offences
10: Fraud
11: General inchoate offences
12: Parties to crime
13: Denial of an offence
14: General defences