Criminal Laws: Materials and Commentary on Criminal Law and Process in New South Wales

In this book, criminal law is approached as a mode of regulation with specific limits. The book maintains a sceptical attitude to traditional claims that criminal law can be learned via a set of general principles applicable to behaviours across the board. Detailed doctrinal exposition is set within a contextual approach that utilizes social policy analysis in assessing the benefits and limits of criminalization. The book is widely acknowledged to be the leading modern analysis of Australian criminal law. It is ideal for stimulating class or tutorial discussion and developing research skills. The fourth edition of Criminal Laws NSW maintains the distinctive features which have established the book as the leading work since its first publication in 1990. It again contains critical, thematic, contextual, and interdisciplinary perspectives so that it continues to be, quoting one reviewer, simultaneously a textbook, casebook, handbook and reference work.Brown, David is the author of 'Criminal Laws: Materials and Commentary on Criminal Law and Process in New South Wales', published 2006 under ISBN 9781862875968 and ISBN 1862875960.