Criminal Law Criminal Justice: An Introduction [Paperback]

This accessible text enables criminology and criminal justice students to understand and critically evaluate the criminal law, in the context of criminal justice and wider social issues. The book explains criminal law comprehensively, covering both general principles and specific types of criminal offence. It examines criminal law in its social context, as well as considering how it is used by the criminal justice processes and agencies which enforce it in practice.

It is accompanied by a companion website which incorporates a range of resources for lecturers and students.
This accessible text enables criminology and criminal justice students to understand and critically evaluate the criminal law, in the context of criminal justice and wider social issues. The book explains criminal law comprehensively, covering both general principles and specific types of criminal offence. It examines criminal law in its social context, as well as considering how it is used by the criminal justice processes and agencies which enforce it in practice.

It is accompanied by a companion website which incorporates a range of resources for lecturers and students.
This book, original in conception and clearly written and structured, will do an excellent job of introducing students of criminology and criminal justice to the relationship between law in the books and law in action. With a wealth of examples, it will help social science students to understand legal language and legal reasoning, and how criminal justice practice needs to be seen in the context of criminal law.
Professor David Smith
Lancaster University

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