Criminal Law & Criminal Justice: An Introduction 

This accessible text enables criminology and criminal justice students to understand and critically evaluate criminal law in the context of criminal justice and wider social issues.The book explains criminal law comprehensively, covering both general principles and specific types of criminal offences. It examines criminal law in its social context, as well as considering how it is used by the criminal justice processes and agencies which enforce it in practice.Covering all the different theoretical approaches that the student of criminology and criminal justice will need to understand, the book provides learning tools