Undergraduate Module Descriptor

LAW1040C: Criminal Law 1: Foundations

This module descriptor refers to the 2022/3 academic year.

Indicative Reading List

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Textbooks:


A P Simester, J R Spencer, F Stark, G R Sullivan, G J VirgoCriminal Law: Theory and Doctrine, 7th ed. (Hart Publications, 2019)

 

J. Herring, Criminal Law: Text, Cases and Materials, (8th edn,.OUP, 2020)

 

S. R. Kyd, T. Elliott and M. A. Walters Clarkson and Keating : Criminal Law (10th edn,Sweet and Maxwell  2020)

 

J. Horder, Ashworth’s Principles of Criminal Law, (9th edn, OUP, 2019)

 

J. Loveless, M.Allen,C. Derry, Complete Criminal Law, (7th edn., OUP, 2020).

 

D Ormerod and K Laird Smith, Hogan, & Ormerod's Criminal Law  16th ed. (OUP, 2021)

 

N. Monaghan, Criminal Law Directions, 6th ed. (OUP, 2020).

 

 

Web based and electronic resources:

 

ELE – https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/

 

Other resources:

 

You are expected to keep up to date with topical events. This is best done by reading newspapers such as The Times, The Guardian or The Independent. You may also find recent and current editions of specialist journals, in particular the Criminal Law Review and the Journal of Criminal Law are particularly useful.