Burchell’s Principles of Criminal Law 6e (e-book)
This sixth edition of the established work Principles of Criminal Law, now Burchell’s Principles of Criminal Law, includes a number of compelling new features. Written by three specialist authors – Emeritus Professor Jonathan Burchell, Professor P J Schwikkard and Dr Tshepo Bogosi Mosaka – it contains substantially improved chapters on corruption, substance abuse and organized crime, as well as fuller debate on consent to die with dignity.
| e-book ISBN: | 9781485153313 |
| Publisher: | Juta Publishers |
| Variant: | e-book |
| Author(s): | Burchell, JM |
| Edition: | 6th Edition |
Content
PART ONE
INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Chapter 1: Definitions, origins and fundamental values of South African
criminal justice
PART TWO
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
Section A: Overview
Chapter 2: General principles of criminal law in South Africa in outline
Section B: Unlawful conduct (actus reus)
Chapter 3: Introduction
Chapter 4: Voluntary human conduct
Chapter 5: An act of commission or an omission
Chapter 6: Causation
Chapter 7: Unlawfulness
Section C: Defences excluding unlawfulness
Chapter 8: Private defence
Chapter 9: Public authority
Chapter 10: Necessity
Chapter 11: Impossibility
Chapter 12: Obedience to superior orders
Chapter 13: Consent
Chapter 14: Entrapment
Chapter 15: De minimis non curat lex
Chapter 16: Negotiorum gestio (‘unauthorised administration’ or ‘presumed consent’)
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