Universal Bibliography/Law/Criminal

Type classification: this is a bibliography resource.

This page is part of a pan-jurisdictional bibliography of law. This part of the Universal Bibliography is a bibliography of criminal law.

General

• Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
• Stone's Justices' Manual
• Blackstone's Criminal Practice
• Archbold Magistrates' Courts
• Blackstone's Magistrates' Courts
  • Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook 2021
• Russell on Crime
• Burns. Justice of the Peace.
• Smith and Hogan's Criminal Law (now by Ormerod)
  • Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law. 3rd Ed: 2019: .
• Card, Cross and Jones: Criminal Law. 22nd Ed: 2016: .

• Sharpley. Criminal Litigation: Practice and Procedure. (CLP Legal Practice Guides). 2021/22: . 2019/20: .

• Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law. 18th Ed: 1962: .
• Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law. 9th Ed: 2019: .
• Elliott and Quinn's Criminal Law. 12th Ed: 2018: . 7th Ed: 2008: . 6th Ed: 2006: .
• Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine. 8th Ed: 2022:
• The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law. 2014.
• Allen and Edwards. Criminal Law. 16th Ed: 2021: .
• Padfield. Criminal Law. (Core Text Series). 10th Ed: 2016:
• Wilson. Criminal Law. (Longman Law). 7th Ed: 2020: . Criminal Law: Doctrine and Theory. 3rd Ed: 2008: .
• Criminal Law. (Nutshells). Sweet & Maxwell. 10th Ed: 2014: .
• Clarkson. Understanding Criminal Law. Sweet & Maxwell. 4th Ed: 2005: .
• Herring. Criminal Law. (Macmillan Law Masters). 2021.
• Storey. Unlocking Criminal Law. 7th Ed: 2019: . Martin and Storey. 4th Ed: 2013: .

• Stewart. A Modern View of the Criminal Law. Pergamon Press. 1969.

• Simester. Fundamentals of Criminal Law: Responsibility, Culpability, and Wrongdoing. 2021.

• Cherkassky. Course Notes: Criminal Law. 2012. 2013.
• Martin. Criminal Law. (Key Facts Key Cases). 2014.

Text, Cases, and Materials

• Herring. Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials. 9th Ed: 2020: .
• Loveless, Allen and Derry. Complete Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials. 7th Ed: 2020: . Loveless. 3rd Ed: 2012: .
• Macdonald. Text, Cases and Materials on Criminal Law. 2nd Ed: 2018: .

Statutes

• Blackstone's Statutes on Criminal Law. 31st Ed: 2021:
• Hart Core Statutes on Criminal Law 2022/2023
• Criminal Law Statutes 2012-2013. (Routledge Student Statutes).

Cases

• Handler, Mares and Williams. Landmark Cases in Criminal Law. 2017.

Criminal appeals

• Bennathan, Jones and Stewart. Criminal Appeals Handbook. 2015.

Criminal procedure

• Emmins on Criminal Procedure. 9th Ed: 2002:
• Sprack. A Practical Approach to Criminal Procedure. 13th Ed: 2011: .

Offences against the person

• Fourteenth Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee
• Stone. Offences Against the Person. 1999.

Ireland

• Charleton, Peter. Offences Against the Person. Round Hall Press. Dublin. 1992. Reviews:

Offences against property

• Eighth and Thirteenth Reports of the Criminal Law Revision Committee
• Griew, The Theft Acts 1968 and 1978

Sexual offences

• Fifthteenth Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee
• Rook and Ward on Sexual Offences

Scotland

• Gordon. The Criminal Law of Scotland. 1967. Review: . 2nd Ed: 1978. Review: . 3rd Ed: 2000 to 2001: . 4th Ed: 2017.
• Jones and Taggart. Criminal Law. (Greens Concise Scots Law). 7th Ed: 2018: . 6th Ed: 2015: . 5th Ed: 2012: . 4th Ed: 2008: . Jones and Christie. 1992. .
• Cubie. Scots Criminal Law. 4th Ed: 2016: . McCall Smith and Sheldon. 3rd Ed: 2010: . 2nd Ed: 1997: .
• McDiarmid. Scottish Criminal Law Essentials. (Edinburgh Law Essentials). 3rd Ed: 2018: .
• Hamilton and Harper. A Fingertip Guide to Scots Criminal Law. 6th Ed: 2013: .
• Ferguson and McDiarmid. Scots Criminal Law. 1st Ed: 2009. 2nd Ed: 2015: .
• Macdonald's Criminal Law. 1867: . 2nd Ed: 1877: .
• Alison. Principles of the Criminal Law of Scotland. 1832.
• Alison. Practice of the Criminal Law of Scotland. 1833.
• Burnett. A Treatise on various Branches of the Criminal Law of Scotland. 1811.
• Bayne. Institutions of the Criminal Law of Scotland. 1730.

• A Casebook on Scottish Criminal Law. 4th Ed: 2009: .

• Essays in Criminal Law in Honour of Sir Gerald Gordon. 2010.

• Duff and Ferguson (eds). Scottish Criminal Evidence Law. 2018.

Australia

• James Joseph Casey. The Justices' Manual, with the Justices Statute and Notes thereon. Charles F Maxwell. Melbourne. 1872. "Review" (1872) 3 Australian Jurist lix (3 December, No 16)

New Zealand

See Criminal law of New Zealand

United States

• Kadish and Paulsen. Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials. 1962: . 2nd Ed: 1969: . 3rd Ed: 1975: .
  • 4th Ed: 1983. 5th Ed: 1989. 6th Ed: 1995. 7th Ed: 2001. 8th Ed: 2007. 9th Ed: 2012. 10th Ed: 2017. Schulhofer and Barkow. 11th Ed: 2022: .
• Kadish. Criminal Law and the Social Order: A Course of Study. Salt Lake City. 1959: . Summer 1961. Commentary: "Three Appointed", Law Quadrangle Notes, May 1961, p 5. .

India

• Krishnamurti. A Hand Book of Criminal Law. 2nd Ed: 1946.
• Huda. The Principles of the Law of Crimes in British India. 1902 Tagore Lectures.
• Mayne. The Criminal Law of India. 1896.
• Starling. Indian Criminal Law. 7th Ed: 1897.
  • Indian Criminal Law and Procedure. 3rd Ed: 1877:
• Mayne. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Criminal Law. 1859. 2nd Ed. 1865.

• The All India Criminal Digest (1904-1940)
• Sanjiva Row's All India Digest: Section I - Criminal: 1836-1915. 2nd Ed: 1915 to 1916.

• Ganatra. Handbook of Criminal Cases. Review:

• Raju. Comentaries on the Indian Penal Code. 3rd Ed.
• Cranenburgh. The Indian Penal Code. 8th Ed: 1894:
• Mayne. Commentaries on the Indian Penal Code. 12th Ed: 1884.
• Morgan and Macpherson. The Indian Penal Code. 1861. 1863.

• Prinsep. The Code of Criminal Procedure. 6th Ed: 1882.

Madras

• Baynes. The Criminal Law of the Madras Presidency. 1848: . 1858.

Bengal and Fort William

• Knox. The Criminal Law of the Bengal Presidency. 1873.
• Beaufort. A Digest of the Criminal Law of the Presidency of Fort William. 1850. . 2nd Ed. Pt 1: 1857 . Pt 2: 1859.