Principles of Criminal Law

Bernadette McSherry and Simon Bronitt
Pyrmont, N.S.W. : LBC Information Services, 2001

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Book description
This new comprehensive text opens with a consideration of the social, economic and historical context of criminal law before examining the principles that form the basis of criminal law in Australia.

As the distinction between the common law and the state codes blurs, criminal law is being reconstructed. Issues of gender, human rights, ethnicity are covered thoroughly. A much greater attention is given to the procedural and practical operation of criminal law supported by reference to empirical data on the practical operation of the law.

The extensive treatment of model criminal codes and proposals for reform is covered in this text book. It distinctively treats fault, principles and defences by its use of psychological and psychiatric approaches to critique the law. [Thomson]

About the author
Bernadette McSherry is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. She is the Director of Research of the International Institute of Forensic Studies.

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