Criminal Law in Ireland 2nd edition

Professor Liz Campbell is the inaugural Francine V McNiff Chair in Criminal Jurisprudence atMonash University, Melbourne. Her research focuses on how the law responds to profit-driven crime,both by legitimate corporate entities as well as networks of organised crime. Another strand of herresearch looks at the use of biometrics in investigation and prosecution, and she is a member of theUK Home Office Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group. She was a Fulbright scholar in 2011, andher research has been funded by the Research Council UK, the Law Foundation of New Zealand, theModern Law Review, and the Carnegie Trust. She publishes widely in the area of criminal law/justicein generalist and specialist journals, and is co-author of the fifth edition of The Criminal Process (withProfessor Andrew Ashworth and Professor Mike Redmayne) (OUP, 2019).Dr Catherine O’Sullivan, BCL, LL.M (NUI), is a lecturer in Law and Criminology at the UniversityCollege Cork. Her main research interests lie in Criminal Law, Criminology, Gender and the Law,and Law and Popular Culture. In addition to this text, she co-authored Fundamentals of the IrishLegal System (2016). She has published articles in a variety of national and international publicationsincluding the Irish Jurist, the Dublin University Law Journal, the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly,Legal Studies, and Human Rights Quarterly.Professor Shane Kilcommins is head of the School of Law at the University of Limerick. His areas ofexpertise are criminal law, evidence law, criminal procedure, penology and legal philosophy. He is aFulbright scholar, has been appointed an expert with European Committee for the Prevention ofTorture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He also acts as an examiner for the LawSociety of Ireland in criminal law.Dr Alan Cusack is a lecturer in law at the University of Limerick. Dr Cusack is a graduate ofUniversity College Cork (BCL, LL.M, PhD), University College Dublin (Dip. Emp) and the LawSociety of Ireland (Solicitor, 2012). His research interests lie in the broad areas of criminal procedure,criminal law, victimology, criminology, the laws of evidence and disability studies. Dr Cusack hasbeen widely published in national and international journals including, The International Journal ofLaw and Psychiatry, The International Journal of Evidence and Proof; the Northern Ireland LegalQuarterly and the Irish Judicial Studies Journal and he has provided expert analysis on the treatmentof vulnerable witnesses for national media outlets in Ireland including Newstalk FM and The IrishExaminer.

• Part 1: Principles of Criminal Law• The Definition of a Crime• The Classification of Crime• Actus Reus• Mens Rea• The Inchoate Offence of Attempt• The Inchoate Offence of Conspiracy• Inchoate Offence of Incitement• Criminal ParticipationPart 2: Criminal Procedure• The Presumption of Innocence• Arrest• The Right to Silence• Powers of Detention• The Courts of Criminal Jurisdiction• BailPart 3: Criminal Law Offences• Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person• Sexual Offences• Homicide• Offences Against Property• Offences of a Public Nature Against the State• Offences Against the Administration of Justice• Road Traffic Offences• Drugs Offences• Regulatory OffencesPart 4: Defences• Defences – A Theoretical Guide• General Defences• Capacity Defences• Defences Specific to MurderPart 4: Victims’ Rights• Victims’ Rights