Criminal Laws: Materials and Commentary
Textbook Criminology Australian Law Criminal Law Legal Education Law Reference Comparative Law
Criminal Laws: Materials and Commentary (7th edition, 2020) is the desktop bible Australian law students, early-career solicitors and barristers reach for when they need to bridge the gap between black-letter rules and real-world criminal practice. At 1 504 pages this is not a quick skim; it is a meticulously curated collection of extracts from key statutes, leading High-Court judgments, Law Reform Commission reports, criminological studies and comparative international material, all stitched together by Dr Arlie Loughnan and Dr Thalia Anthony’s crisp explanatory notes. The result is a single volume that doubles as a core university text and a portable reference that stays on your desk long after exams are over.
What makes this edition stand out is the way it captures the rapid evolution of Australian criminal law since 2016: expanded coverage of coercive control offences, modern slavery provisions, youth justice reforms, and the new federal “consent-positive” model of sexual assault. Each chapter opens with a concise roadmap of doctrinal debates—e.g. why the High Court re-calibrated the test for complicity in R v Jogee, or how the courts are grappling with Indigenous defences of customary law—before plunging into the primary materials so readers can watch the doctrine evolve line-by-line. Comparative boxes on English, Canadian and New Zealand developments give practitioners ready-made citations for novel arguments, while problem-style hypothetical questions mirror final-exam and clerkship interview formats.
Collectors and students alike prize the Federation Press paperback for its lay-flat binding and high-opacity paper that survives highlighter pens without bleed-through. This particular copy is in very good condition: pages are crisp, unmarked and free of the dog-eared corners that usually plague heavily-used law texts, with only minor flecks on the closed page edges from shelf storage—cosmetic only. The 7th edition ISBN 9781760021795 is already out of print in paperback, so securing a clean second-hand copy now beats paying premium prices for the forthcoming reprint or relying on loose-leaf supplements.
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