Bibliography of English criminal law

• Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Criminal Law
• Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
• Blackstone's Criminal Practice
• Criminal Law Review
• Criminal Appeal Reports
• Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing)

Practitioner texts

General texts

• Anthony and Berryman's Magistrates' Court Guide
• Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
• Archbold Magistrates' Courts Criminal Practice
• Blackstone's Criminal Practice
• Crown Court Index
• Stone's Justices' Manual

Sentencing

• Banks on Sentence
• Thomas' Sentencing Referencer
• Current Sentencing Practice
• Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice

Specialist areas

• Arlidge and Parry on Fraud
• Beldam and Holdam on the Court of Appeal Criminal Division
• Blackstone's Handbook of Youths in the Criminal Courts
• Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook
• Kingsley Napley & 6KBW College Hill: Serious Fraud, Investigation
• Ormerod & Montgomery on Fraud
• Rook and Ward on Sexual Offences
• Sexual Offences Referencer
• Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences
• Zander on PACE

Academic and students' texts

Substantive criminal law

• Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law
• Card, Cross and Jones: Criminal Law
• Clarkson & Keating: Criminal Law - Text & Materials
• Glanville Williams and Dennis Baker: Treatise of Criminal Law
• Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine
• Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Criminal Law

Criminal evidence

• Roberts & Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence

Law reports

• Cox's Criminal Cases
• Criminal Appeal Reports
• Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing)
• Crown Cases Reserved
• Foster's Crown Law
• State trials
• Justice of the Peace Reports
• Road Traffic Reports

Journals and periodicals

• Archbold Review
• Blackstone’s Criminal Practice Monthly Update
• CrimeLine
• Criminal Law Review
• Criminal Law Week
• Journal of Criminal Law

Historic works

Foundational texts

• Blackstone's Commentaries, Book IV "Of Public Wrongs"
• de Bracton's Laws and Customs of England, Book III "The Crown and Pleas of the Crown"
• Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England, Part III "Concerning High Treason and other Please of the Crown and Criminal Causes"
• East's Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, Vols 1 and 2
• Fortescu's Commendation of the Laws of England
• Foster's Crown Law
• Glanvill's Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of England, Book IV "Criminal Pleas belonging to the Crown"
• Hale's History of the Pleas of the Crown, Vols 1 and 2
• Hawkins' Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown, Vols 1 and 2

19th and early-20th Century texts

• Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
• Russell on Crime
• Harris's Criminal Law
• Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law
• Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law
• Williams's Textbook of Criminal Law and Criminal Law: The General Part

Criminal Law Revision Committee Reports

• 1st Report, Indecency with Children, Cmnd 835. 5 pp.
• 2nd Report, Suicide, Cmnd 1187. 9 pp.
• 3rd Report, Criminal Procedure , Cmnd 2149. 23 pp.
• 4th Report, Order of Closing Speeches, Cmnd 2148. 6 pp.
• 5th Report, Criminal Procedure , Cmnd 2349. 5 pp.
• 6th Report, Perjury and Attendance of Witnesses, Cmnd 2465. 31 pp.
• 7th Report, Felonies and Misdemeanours, Cmnd 2659. 57 pp.
• 8th Report, Theft and Related Offences, Cmnd 2977. 139 pp.
• 9th Report, Evidence: Written Statements, Formal Admissions and Notices of Alibi, Cmnd 3145. 23 pp.
• 10th Report, Secrecy of Jury Room, Cmnd 3750. 6 pp.
• 11th Report, Evidence , Cmnd 4991. 258 pp.
• 12th Report, Penalty for Murder, Cmnd 5184. 23 pp.
• Working Paper, Section 16 of the Theft Act 1968 . 35 pp.
• Working Paper, Offences Against the Person. 73–74 pp.
• 13th Report, Section 16 of the Theft Act 1968, Cmnd 6733. 34–35 pp.
• 14th Report, Offences Against the Person, Cmnd 7844. 150 pp.
• Working Paper, Sexual Offences. 63 pp.
• Working Paper, Offences Relating to Prostitution and Allied Offences . 57 pp.
• 15th Report, Sexual Offences, Cmnd 9213. 105 pp.
• 16th Report, Prostitution in the Street, Cmnd 9329. 37 pp.
• 17th Report, Prostitution – Off-Street Activities, Cmnd 9688. 30 pp.
• 18th Report, Conspiracy to Defraud, Cmnd 9873. 15 pp.

Law Commission Reports and Papers

Abolition of Ancient Offences: Law Com. No 3

• LC 3. Report on Abolition of Ancient Offences.

Imputed Criminal Intent: Law Co. No. 10

• LC 10. Report on Imputed Criminal Intent.

Damage to Property: Law Com. No. 29

• LCCP 23. Working Paper on Malicious Damage.
• LC 29. Report on Offences of Damage to Property.

Strict Liability

• LCCP 30. Working Paper on Strict Liability and the Enforcement of the Factories Act 1961.

Forgery and Counterfeit Currency: Law Com. No. 55

• LCCP 26. Working Paper on Forgery.
• LC 55. Report on Forgery and Counterfeit Currency.

Parties, Complicity and Liability for the Acts of Another

• LCCP 43. Working Paper on Parties, Complicity and Liability for the Acts of Another.

Criminal Liability of Corporations

• LCCP 44. Working Paper on Criminal Liability of Corporations.

Inchoate Offences: Conspiracy, Attempt and Incitement

• LCCP 50. Working Paper on Inchoate Offences: Conspiracy, Attempt and Incitement.

Entering and Remaining on Property

• LCCP 54. Working Paper on Offences of Entering and Remaining on Property.

Conspiracy and Criminal Law Reform: Law Com. No. 76

• LCCP 56. Working Paper on Conspiracy to Defraud.
• LCCP 57. Working Paper on Conspiracies Relating to Morals and Decency.
• LCCP 63. Working Paper on Conspiracies to Effect a Public Mischief and to Commit a Civil Wrong.
• LC 76. Report on Conspiracy and Criminal Law Reform.

Defences of General Application: Law Com. No. 83

• LCCP 55. Working Paper on Defences of General Application.
• LC 83. Report on Defences of General Application.

Treason, Sedition and Allied Offences

• LCCP 72. Working Paper on Treason, Sedition and Allied Offences.

Mental Element in Crime: Law Com. No. 89

• LCCP 31. Working Paper on the Mental Element in Crime.
• LC 89. Report on the Mental Element in Crime.

Territorial and Extraterritorial Extent of the Criminal Law: Law Com. No. 91

• LCCP 29. Working Paper on the Territorial and Extraterritorial Extent of the Criminal Law.
• LC 91. Report on the Territorial and Extra-Territorial Extent of the Criminal Law.

Interference with the Course of Justice: Law Com. No. 96

• LCCP 33. Working Paper on Perjury and Kindred Offences.
• LCCP 62. Working Paper on Offences Relating to the Administration of Justice.
• LC 96. Report on Offences Relating to Interference with the Course of Justice.

Attempt and Impossibility in Relation to Attempt, Conspiracy and Incitement: Law Com. No. 102

• LC 102. Report on Attempt and Impossibility in Relation to Attempt, Conspiracy and Incitement.

Public Order Offences: Law Com. No. 123

• LCCP 82. Working Paper on Offences against Public Order.
• LC 123. Report on Offences Relating to Public Order.

Offences against Religion and Public Worship: Law Com. No. 145

• LCCP 89. Working Paper on Offences against Religion and Public Worship.
• LC 145. Report on Offences against Religion and Public Worship.

Criminal Libel: Law Com. No. 149

• LCCP 84. Working Paper on Criminal Libel.
• LC 149. Report on Criminal Libel.

Poison Pen Letters: Law Com. No. 147

• LC 147. Report on Poison Pen Letters.

Codification of the Criminal Law: Law Com. Nos 143 and 177

• LC 143. Codification of the Criminal Law: a Report to the Law Commission.
• LC177. A Criminal Code for England and Wales .
• LC177. A Criminal Code for England and Wales .Hansard Debates, House of Lords, Vol 508, Col 2 56 ‘Law Commission Report No 177’.

Computer Misuse: Law Com. No.186

• LCCP 110. Working Paper on Computer Misuse.
• LC 186. Report on Computer Misuse.

Rape within Marriage: Law Com. No. 205

• LCCP 116. Working Paper on Rape within Marriage.
• LC 205. Report on Rape within Marriage.

Offences against the Person and General Principles: Law Com. No. 218

• LCCP 122. Consultation Paper on Offences against the Person and General Principles.
• LC 218. Report on Offences against the Person and General Principles.

Conspiracy to Defraud: Law Com. No. 228

• LCCP 104. Working Paper on Conspiracy to Defraud.
• LC 228. Report on Conspiracy to Defraud.

Intoxication and Criminal Liability: Law Com. No. 299

• LCCP 127. Consultation Paper on Intoxication and Criminal Liability.
• LC 229. Report on Intoxication and Criminal Liability.

Consent and Offences Against the Person

• LCCP 134. Consultation Paper on Consent and Offences Against the Person.

The Year and a Day Rule in Homicide: Law Com. No. 230

• LCCP 136. Consultation Paper on The Year and a Day Rule in Homicide.
• LC 230. Report on The Year and a Day Rule in Homicide.

Involuntary Manslaughter: Law Com. No. 237

• LCCP 135. Consultation Paper on Involuntary Manslaughter.
• LC 237. Report on Involuntary Manslaughter.

Consent in the Criminal Law

• LCCP 139. Consultation Paper on Consent in the Criminal Law.

Corruption: Law Com. No. 248

• LCCP 145. Consultation Paper on Corruption.
• LC 248. Report on Corruption.

Misuse of Trade Secrets

• LCCP 150. Consultation Paper on Misuse of Trade Secrets.

Fraud: Law Com. No.276

• LCCP 155. Consultation Paper on Fraud and Deception.
• LC 276. Report on Fraud.

Partial Defences to Murder: Law Com. No. 290

• LCCP 173. Consultation Paper on Partial Defences to Murder.
• LC 290. Report on Partial Defences to Murder Report.

Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide: Law Com. No.304

• LCCP 177. Consultation Paper on A New Homicide Act for England and Wales?.
• LC 304. Report on Murder, Manslaughter and Infanticide.

Participating in Crime: Law Com. Nos 300 and 305

• LCCP 131. Consultation Paper on Assisting and Encouraging Crime.
• LC 300. Report on Inchoate Liability for Assisting and Encouraging Crime.
• LC 305. Report on Participating in Crime.

Bribery: Law Com. No. 313

• LCCP 185. Consultation Paper on Reforming Bribery.
• LC 313. Report on Reforming Bribery.

Intoxication and Criminal Liability: Law Com. No. 314

• LC 314. Report on Intoxication and Criminal Liability.

Insanity and Automatism

• . Scoping Paper on Insanity and Automatism.
• . Discussion Paper on Insanity and Automatism.

Kidnapping: Law Com. No. 355

• LCCP 200. Consultation Paper on Kidnapping.
• LC 355. Report on Kidnapping and Related Offences.

Public Nuisance and Outraging Public Decency: Law Com. No. 358

• LC 358. Report on Public Nuisance and Outraging Public Decency.

Offences against the Person: Law Com. No. 361

• LCCP 217. Scoping Consultation Paper on Reform of Offences against the Person.
• LC 361. Report on Reform of Offences against the Person.

Firearms: Law Com. No. 363

• LCCP 224. Scoping Paper on Firearms Law.
• LC 363. Report on Firearms Law – Reforms to Address Pressing Problems.

Protection of Official Data: Law Com. No. 395

• LCCP 230. Consultation Paper on Protection of Official Data.
• LC 395. Report on Protecting Official Data.

Misconduct in Public Office: Law Com. No.397

• LCCP 229. Consultation Paper on Reforming Misconduct in Public Office.
• LC 397. Report on Misconduct in Public Office.

Abusive and Offensive Online Communications: Law Com. Nos 381 and 399

• LC 381. Scoping Paper on Abusive and Offensive Online Communications.
• LCCP 249. Consultation Paper on Harmful Online Communications: The Criminal Offences.
• LC 399. Report on Modernising Communications Offences.

Hate Crime: Law Com. Nos 348 and 402

• LC 348. Report on Hate Crime: Should the Current Offences Be Extended?.
• LCCP 250. Consultation Paper on Hate Crime Laws.
• LC 402. Final Report on Hate Crime Laws.

Automated Vehicles: Law Com. No.404

• LCCP 240. Preliminary Consultation Paper on Automated Vehicles.
• LCCP 244. Second Consultation Paper on Automated Vehicles.
• LCCP 245. Third Consultation Paper on Automated Vehicles.
• LC 404. Report on Automated Vehicles.

Corporate Criminal Liability

• . Options Paper on Corporate Criminal Liability.

Current Ongoing Projects (as at November 2025)

Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice

• Horder. Provocation and Responsibility.
• McConville, Hodgson, Bridges & Pavlovic. Standing Accused.
• Mackay. Mental Condition Defences in the Criminal Law.
• Jackson & Doran. Judge Without Jury.
• Fionda. Public Prosecutors and Discretion.
• von Hirsch. Censure and Sanctions.
• Simester & Smith. Harm and Culpability.
• Choo. Hearsay and Confrontation in Criminal Trials.
• Duff. Criminal Attempts.
• Robinson. Structure and Function in Criminal Law.
• Ashworth & Wasik. Fundamentals of Sentencing Theory.
• Smith. Lawyers, Legislators and Theorists.
• Norrie. Punishment, Responsibility, and Justice.
• Ashworth & Mitchell. Rethinking English Homicide Law.
• Wells. Corporations and Criminal Responsibility.
• Redmayne. Expert Evidence and Criminal Justice.
• Shute & Simester. Criminal Law Theory.
• Ellison. The Adversarial Process and the Vulnerable Witness.
• Temkin. Rape and the Legal Process.
• Hirst. Jurisdiction and the Ambit of the Criminal Law.
• Lazarus. Contrasting Prisoners’ Rights.
• Horder. Excusing Crime.
• Simester. Appraising Strict Liability.
• Tadros. Criminal Responsibility.
• Duff & Green. Defining Crimes.
• von Hirsch & Ashworth. Proportionate Sentencing.
• Lewis. Delayed Prosecution for Childhood Sexual Abuse.
• Leverick. Killing in Self-Defence.
• Green. Lying, Cheating, and Stealing.
• Tadros. Criminal Responsibility.
• Horder. Excusing Crime.
• Erin & Ost. The Criminal Justice System and Health Care.
• Lippke. Rethinking Imprisonment.
• Ho. A Philosophy of Evidence Law.
• Choo. Abuse of Process and Judicial Stays of Criminal Proceedings.
• Dempsey. Prosecuting Domestic Violence.
• Lippke. The Ethics of Plea Bargaining.
• Horder. Homicide and the Politics of Law Reform.
• Loughnan. Manifest Madness.
• Ramsay. The Insecurity State.
• Ashworth & Zedner. Preventive Justice.
• Ashworth & Zedner. Preventive Justice.
• Redmayne. Character in the Criminal Trial.
• Lacey. In Search of Criminal Responsibility.
• Lacey. In Search of Criminal Responsibility.
• Carvalho. The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law.
• Alldridge. Criminal Justice and Taxation.
• Horder. Criminal Misconduct in Office.
• Mackay & Brookbanks. Fitness to Plead.
• Hoyle & Sato. Reasons to Doubt.
• Green. Criminalizing Sex.
• Aliverti. Policing the Borders Within.
• Horder. Criminal Fraud and Election Disinformation.
• Picinali. Justice In-Between.
• Mackay & Brookbanks. The Insanity Defence.
• King & Hendry. Civil Recovery of Criminal Property.
• Helm. How Juries Work.
• Dripps. Sentencing Discretion and the Constitution.
• Manikis. Victims as Agents of State Accountability.