Criminal Law revision and resources for A Level Law students

  • AQA and OCR
  • 28 lessons · 6 topics

The Criminal Law topic at A Level goes through different offences and defences. From theory and liability including actus reus and mens rea, to the different offences covered in A Level Law, Study Dog's resources break them down helping you to evaluate them ready for exams.

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Criminal Law

Course outline

1. Theory and Liability 5 lessons
  1. Rules and theory of criminal law
    1. Criminal Liability
    2. Theories of Criminalisation
  2. Formulation principles
  3. Actus reus
  4. Mens rea
  5. Strict liability
2. Fatal offences against the person 3 lessons
  1. Murder
  2. Voluntary manslaughter
    1. Loss of control
    2. Diminished responsibility
  3. Involuntary manslaughter
    1. Unlawful act manslaughter
    2. Gross negligence manslaughter
3. Non-fatal offences against the person 5 lessons
  1. Assault
  2. Battery
  3. ABH
  4. Wounding & GBH
  5. Wounding & GBH with intent
4. Property offences 4 lessons
  1. Theft
  2. Robbery
  3. Burglary
  4. Other property offences
5. Defences 6 lessons
  1. Insanity
  2. Automatism
  3. Intoxication
  4. Self-defence
  5. Duress
    1. Duress by threats
    2. Duress of circumstances and necessity
  6. Consent
6. Preliminary Offence & Evaluation 5 lessons
  1. Attempt
  2. Evaluation of fatal offences
  3. Evaluation of non-fatal offences
  4. Evaluation of defences
  5. Evaluating the state of criminal law

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AQA 1 Criminal Law
OCR 1 Criminal Law

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