Criminal Law

A definitive guide to Canadian criminal law, now in its ninth edition, this book is authored by renowned criminal law expert and professor Kent Roach. It is frequently cited by courts including the Supreme Court of Canada.

The book examines the general principles of criminal law including the prohibited act, fault requirements, inchoate and accessory liability. It also examines defences to crime, sentencing, and trends in criminal justice. The book is written in a clear, accessible style with a glossary so that it is valuable to a wide range of readers including those who are not lawyers or law students. It provides an overview chapter that describes the various parts of criminal law as well as a concluding chapter on trends in criminal justice. Further chapters detail the impact of the Charter and other parts of the Constitution on criminal law, and examine regulatory and corporate crime, and homicide, sexual, property, and terrorism offences, as well as sentencing. This edition of the book analyses important new decisions such as Bykovets, Campbell, and Singer on search and seizure, Ramelson on entrapment, Sudbury on regulatory offences, Bharwani on mental disorder, and Hodgson on self-defence.

Extensively updated, Kent Roach's Criminal Law is widely cited by all levels of courts including the Supreme Court of Canada and serves as a dynamic, up-to-date sourcebook for students and practitioners alike.