"Criminal justice."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 635-648) and index.

pt. I. General introduction -- Introduction to criminal law -- The conduct of a criminal trial -- pt. II. General principles of criminal law -- Unlawful conduct -- Acts and omissions --Unlawful state of affairs -- Causation -- Private defence -- Necessity and impossibility -- Obedience to superior orders -- Public authority -- Lawful chastisement -- Consent -- Deminimis non curat lex -- pt. II. Criminal capacity -- Pathological incapacity -- Youth -- Intoxication -- Fault -- pt. III. Intention -- Negligence -- The contemporaneity rule -- Fault in statutory offences, and strict and vicarious liability -- Corporate criminal liability -- Differences excluding fault -- Degrees of participation in crime Specific crimes -- Participants in crime -- Incomplete crimes pt. III. Specific crimes -- Crimes against human life, the person and the family -- Sexual crimes -- Bigamy -- Abduction -- Property crimes -- Theft --Robbery -- Housebreaking -- Malicious damage to property and arson -- Fraud -- Crimes against community -- Corruption -- Public violence -- Crimes against public morals -- Drug offences -- Road traffic offences -- Extortion -- Crimes against the state and administration of justice -- Crimes against the state -- Crimes against the administration of justice -- Organised and commercial crime --Crimes under the companies act 71 0f 2008 -- Organised crime and money laundering -- International criminal law -- Introduction to international criminal law -- The core international crimes -- The prosecution of international crimes -- Other crimes of international concern