Criminal Law and Procedure: Cases and Materials is a longstanding bestseller that provides an overview of the entire criminal process, from police investigations to sentencing. Through case law and commentary, readers will learn how to apply legislation that governs both regulatory and criminal offences.

This twelfth edition includes updated legislation and sources, more extensive extracts from leading cases, and additional secondary and contextual readings. New material covers issues of social importance to the criminal justice system, including Aboriginal justice, racial and ethnic bias, and gender in criminal law.

• Coverage of legislative changes, including the passage of Bill C-75
• Enriched discussion of treaties, Aboriginal rights, Indigenous law, and the impact of criminal law on Indigenous peoples
• New chapter on sexual assault, integrating analysis of R v Barton, R v Goldfinch, and R v RV
• Updated chapter on corporate criminal liability and regulatory liability that contextualizes case law and addresses the reluctance to prosecute corporations
• New chapter on police powers, which includes enhanced discussion of racial profiling, police carding policies, developments in search and seizure, and leading cases like R v Le
• Updated section on statutory interpretation of the Criminal Code
• Updated sections on fault, entrapment, and inchoate offences that discuss anti-terrorism laws and leading cases such as R v Ansari and R v Nuttal
• New chapter on sentencing and punishment that includes updates on mandatory minimum sentences, discussion of solitary confinement and prison conditions, and critiques of carceral responses to crime
• Discussion of legal ethics and professional responsibility in the context of a study of the trial process and miscarriages of justice
• New and fresh design that is easy for students to read

Part I: Introduction to Criminal Law and Procedure
1. Sources of Criminal Law
2. Limits on Criminal Law
3. Police Powers
4. The Trial Process

Part II: Principles of Criminal Liability
5. Conduct or Actus Reus
6. Absolute and Strict Liability
7. Fault or Mens Rea
8. Ignorance of the Law

Part III: Extensions of Criminal Liability
9. Participation
10. Inchoate Offences
11. Corporate Liability

Part IV: The Special Part: Sexual Assault and Homicide
12. Sexual Assault
13. Homicide

Part V: Principles of Exculpation
14. Provocation
15. Mental Disorder and Automatism
16. Intoxication
17. Self-Defence
18. Duress
19. Necessity

Part VI: Disposition
20. Sentencing