Irwin Law: Criminal Law (Fifth Edition)
- Publisher:
- Irwin Law Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2012-06-26
- Authors:
-
Kent Roach
(Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) - ISBN:
- 978-1-55221-302-5
Description:
Fifth Edition
Preliminaries
Chapter 1 - Overview
- Overview
- A. Crime in Canada
- B. The Criminal Process
- C. Sources of Criminal Law
- D. Criminal Offences
- E. Regulatory Offences
- F. The Criminal Law and the Constitution
- G. Substantive Fairness
- H. Procedural Fairness
- I. The Elements of Criminal Offences
- J. The Prohibited Act, or Actus Reus
- K. Attempts and Other Unfulfilled Crimes
- L. Participation in Crimes
- M. The Fault Element, or Mens Rea
- N. Regulatory Offences and Corporate Crime
- O. Defences
- P. The Special Part: Some Selected Offences
- Q. Sentencing
- Conclusion
Chapter 2 - The Criminal Law and the Constitution
Chapter 3 - The prohibited act, or actus reus
Chapter 4 - Unfulfilled crimes and participation in crimes
Chapter 6 - Regulatory offences and corporate crime
Chapter 7 - Intoxication
- Intoxication
- A. Beard’s Case
- B. The Distinction between General And Specific Intent Offences
- C. The Intoxication Defence for Specific Intent Offences
- D. Liability for the Intoxicated Commission of General Intent Offences
- E. Extreme Intoxication and General Intent Offences
- G. Involuntary Intoxication
- Conclusion
Chapter 8 - Mental disorder and automatism
- Mental disorder and automatism
- A. Procedural Considerations In The Mental Disorder Defence
- B. The M’Naghten Rules And Their Codification
- C. Mental Disorder or Disease of the Mind
- D. Capacity to Appreciate the Nature and Quality of the Act
- E. Capacity to Know that the Act Is Wrong
- F. Irresistible Impulse
- G. Effect of a Mental Disturbance Short of Insanity on Mens Rea
- H. Automatism
- Conclusion
Chapter 9 - Self-defence, necessity, and duress
Chapter 12 - Conclusion
Table of Cases and other