Learning Canadian criminal law
By: [compiled] by Don Stuart and Steve Coughlan and Ronald Joseph Delisle
Edition: 12th ed.
Publisher: Carswell
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1227
ISBN-13: 9780779849253
Subjects: Criminal law; Cases
Description: "This comprehensive text provides vital background information and a coherent structure for understanding the law. Focusing on the substantive aspects of the criminal justice system and the trial context, this casebook covers the adversary system, how the elements of crime are proven, defences and sentencing practices. Features include a concentration on the main sources (including the Criminal Code), key judicial decisions and critical review, judicious editing of the increasingly lengthy reasons for judgment in major cases, an extended introductory section and problems based on actual decisions or designed to provoke thought on current social issues."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. Introduction: Sources; title: Procedural overview; title: Role of the criminal justice system in Canadian society; title: Roles and repsonsibilities of judges and lawyers. Chapter 2. The act requirement (actus reus): Introduction; title: Commission of an unlawful act; title: Omissions; title: legal duties to act; title: Voluntariness; title: Acting through innocent agent; title: Causation. Chapter 3. The fault requirement (mens rea or negligence). Introduction; title: Subjective/objective distinction; title: Fault for public welfare (regulatory) offences; title: Fault for crimes; title: Three types of fault for crimes since Creighton; title: Normative theories; title: General review questions. Chapter 4. Rape and sexual assault: Rape laws in context; title: Definition of the crime of rape; title: Crimes of sexual assault (1983); title: Parliament's response to Seaboyer (1992); title: Charter arguments; title: Other substantive options. Chapter 5. Mistake: Mistake of fact; title: Mistake of law. Chapter 6. Incapacity: Age; title: Automatism; title: Intoxication. Chapter 7. Justifications and excuses: Why allow common law defences?; title: Air of reality for defences; title: Defence of person; title: Defence of property; title: Necessity; title: Duress; title: Partial defences to murder; title: General review questions; title: Entrapment. Chapter 8. Parties to a crime: Co-principals; title: Aiding and abetting; title: Counselling; title: Accessory after fact; title: General review questions. Chapter 9. Incomplete crimes: Attempts; title: Conspiracy; title: Liability for offence not committed. Chapter 10. Group responsibility: corporations, criminal organizations and terrorist groups: Corporations; title: Criminal organizations; title: Terrorist groups. Chapter 11. Sentencing: Principles of sentencing; title: Sentencing reform: reduced use of incarceration; title: Tools of sentencing.