Criminal law elements

Title page
Copyright
Acknowledgements
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Table of Contents
	CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
		Structure of criminal law in Australia
		Classification of offences
		The standard and burden of proof
	CHAPTER 2: ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL LIABILITY
		Introduction
		Legal capacity
		Actus reus and mens rea
		Actus reus
		Mens rea
		Requirement of temporal coincidence
	CHAPTER 3: EXTERNAL ELEMENTS OF HOMICIDE
		Introduction
		Human being
		Year and a day rule
		Act or omission
		Voluntariness
		Causation
	CHAPTER 4: MURDER
		Introduction
		Common law murder: South Australia and Victoria
		Murder: New South Wales
		Miscellaneous aspects of murder
		Temporal coincidence of mens rea and actus reus
	CHAPTER 5: VOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
		Introduction
		Excessive force in self-defence
		Provocation: New South Wales and South Australia
		Substantial impairment of the mind: New South Wales
	CHAPTER 6: INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER
		Involuntary manslaughter
		Unlawful and dangerous act manslaughter
		Assault causing death: New South Wales and Victoria
		Manslaughter by criminal negligence
		Difference between manslaughter by criminal negligence and unlawful and dangerous act manslaughter
		Criminal liability for neglect where death or serious harm results from an unlawful act: South Australia
	CHAPTER 7: ASSAULT
		Introduction
		Common assault
		Battery
		Aggravated assaults in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria
		Victorian approach to non-sexual offences against the person
		Defences to assaults
	CHAPTER 8: RAPE
		Introduction
		Sexual intercourse or sexual penetration
		Absence of consent
		Mens rea
		Aggravated rape
		Indecent assault
	CHAPTER 9: PROPERTY OFFENCES: NEW SOUTH WALES
		Introduction
		Larceny
		Fraud
		Robbery
		Burglary
	CHAPTER 10: PROPERTY OFFENCES: VICTORIA AND SOUTH AUSTRALIA
		Introduction
		Theft
		Obtaining by deception
		Robbery
		Burglary
	CHAPTER 11: EXTENDING CRIMINAL LIABILITY: COMPLICITY, CONSPIRACY AND ATTEMPT
		Introduction
		Complicity
		Conspiracy
		Attempt
	CHAPTER 12: DEFENCES: MENTAL IMPAIRMENT AND AUTOMATISM
		Introduction
		Mental impairment
		Automatism
	CHAPTER 13: DEFENCES: INTOXICATION, MISTAKE OF FACT, SELF-DEFENCE, DURESS AND NECESSITY
		Intoxication
		Defence of mistake of fact
		Self-defence
		Duress
		Necessity
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