Pamela Ferguson is Professor of Scots Law at the University of Dundee. Claire McDiarmid is Professor of Criminal Law and Children’s Rights at the University of Glasgow

• Preface to the Third Edition Preface to the First Edition AcknowledgementsTable of Cases Table of LegislationCommonly Used Abbreviations Part I. Determining the Appropriate Scope of the Criminal Law 1. Philosophical Underpinnings2. Principles of Criminalisation3. Harming and Offending4. Fairness and Justice in CriminalisationPart II. Foundations 5. Procedural Framework and Sources6. Actus Reus and Mens Rea7. General Principles of Liability8. Preventive OffencesPart III. Offences which Threaten or Harm Bodily Integrity 9. Homicide10. Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person11. Sexual OffencesPart IV. Offences which Threaten or Harm Interests in Property 12. Crimes of Dishonesty13. Other Property-Related CrimesPart V. Offences which Protect the Course of Justice and Public Order 14. Offences Against the Course of Justice15. Public Order Offences16. Offensive BehavioursPart VI. Statutory Offences and Business Crime 17. General Principles of Statutory Offences18. Business Crime, Regulatory Offences, ‘White Collar’ Crime and Corporate LiabilityPart VII. Defences 19. Alibi, Incrimination, Non-Age, Error and Consent20. Mental Disorder, Unfitness for Trial, Diminished Responsibility, Intoxication and Automatism21. Coercion, Necessity, Self-Defence, Provocation, Superior Orders and EntrapmentPart VIII22. Concluding RemarksIndex