Bibliography of English criminal law

This is a bibliography of English criminal law. The main statements of current law are set out in:

• Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Criminal Law ^[1]
• Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice ^[2]
• Blackstone's Criminal Practice ^[3]
• Criminal Law Review
• Criminal Appeal Reports
• Criminal Appeal Reports (Sentencing)

Practitioner texts

General texts

• Anthony and Berryman's Magistrates' Court Guide ^[4]
• Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice ^{[2] [5] [6]}
• Archbold Magistrates' Courts Criminal Practice ^[7]
• Blackstone's Criminal Practice ^{[3] [8]}
• Crown Court Index ^[9]
• Stone's Justices' Manual ^{[10] [11]}

Sentencing

• Banks on Sentence ^[12]
• Thomas' Sentencing Referencer ^[13]
• Current Sentencing Practice ^[14]
• Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice ^[15]

Specialist areas

• Arlidge and Parry on Fraud ^[16]
• Beldam and Holdam on the Court of Appeal Criminal Division ^[17]
• Blackstone's Handbook of Youths in the Criminal Courts ^[18]
• Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook ^[19]
• Kingsley Napley & 6KBW College Hill: Serious Fraud, Investigation ^[20]
• Ormerod & Montgomery on Fraud ^[21]
• Rook and Ward on Sexual Offences ^[22]
• Sexual Offences Referencer ^[23]
• Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences ^[24]
• Zander on PACE ^[25]

Academic and students' texts

Substantive criminal law

• Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law ^{[26] [27]}
• Card, Cross and Jones: Criminal Law ^[28]
• Clarkson & Keating: Criminal Law - Text & Materials ^[29]
• Glanville Williams and Dennis Baker: Treatise of Criminal Law ^[30]
• Simester and Sullivan's Criminal Law: Theory and Doctrine ^{[31] [32]}
• Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Criminal Law ^{[1] [32]}

Criminal evidence

• Roberts & Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence ^[33]

Law reports

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

Journals and periodicals

• Archbold Review (formerly Archbold News)
• Blackstone’s Criminal Practice Monthly Update
• CrimeLine
• Criminal Law Review ^[34]
• 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 IV "Concerning High Treason and other Please of the Crown and Criminal Causes"
• Fortescu's Commendation of the Laws of England
• 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
• Hawkins' Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown

19th and early-20th Century texts

• Archbold Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice
• Russell on Crime ^{[35] [36]}
• Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law ^[37]
• Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law ^[38]
• Williams's Textbook of Criminal Law and Criminal Law: The General Part

References

• Griffiths (ed). "Sources for further study and preparation of cases". Advanced Criminal Litigation in Practice. 2010. Chapter 2. pp 2 to 4.
• Raistrick. "Criminal Law and Procedure". Lawyers' Law Books. 3rd Ed. Bowker Saur. 1997. pp 164 to 169.
• Rees and Raistrick. "Criminal Law". Lawyers' Law Books: A Practical Index to Legal Literature. Professional Books. Abingdon. 1977. pp 142 to 148.
• Chloros (ed). "Criminal Law and Procedure" in "Crime". A Bibliographical Guide to the Law of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. 2nd Ed. 1973. Part I of Chapter 10. pp 127 to 132.
• Stevens. "Criminal Law". Where to Look for Your Law. 10th Ed. 1948. pp 33 to 35.
• Maxwell and Maxwell. "Criminal Law and Crown Cases". Legal Bibliography of British Commonwealth of Nations. 2nd Ed. 1955. Volume 1. Chapter 12. pp 358 to 374.

1. Ormerod, David; Laird, Karl; Gibson, Matthew (September 2024). Smith, Hogan and Ormerod's Criminal Law (17 ed.). London: OUP. ISBN   9780198890942.
2. Lucraft, Mark (October 2025). Archbold: Criminal Pleading, Evidence and Practice 2026. London: Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN   9780414131095.
3. Ormerod, David; Perry, David (October 2025). Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2026 (36th ed.). OUP. ISBN   9780198981800.
4. Turner, Adrian (December 2025). Anthony and Berryman's Magistrates' Court Guide 2026. London: LexisNexis Butterworths. ISBN   9781474330534.
5. "Recent Judicial Decisions" (1950) 23 The Police Journal 246 at 254
6. Lord Woolf. An Uncommon Lawyer. p 27.
7. Leake, Stephen (December 2025). Archbold Magistrates' Courts Criminal Practice 2026 (22nd ed.). London: Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN   9780414130388.
8. Criminal Litigation 2015-2016. p 8.
9. Trowler, Rebecca; Lucraft, Mark; Mayo, Simon (December 2025). Crown Court Index 2026 (46th ed.). Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN   9780414130005.
10. Turner, Adrian; Kelly, Amanda; Wattam, Nick; Inyundo, Kwame (June 2005). Butterworths Stone's Justices' Manual 2025. London: LexisNexis Butterworths. ISBN   9781474330930.
11. Gibson. The Pocket A-Z of Criminal Justice. p 224.
12. O'Sullivan, Harry (April 2005). Banks on Sentence 2025. LexisNexis. ISBN   9781474330640.
13. Harris, Lyndon (November 2025). Thomas' Sentencing Referencer 2026. ISBN   9780414131224.
14. Harris, Lyndon; Roberts, Julian; Walker, Sebastian. Current Sentencing Practice (Ongoing Looseleaf ed.). London: Sweet & Maxwell.
15. Harris, Lyndon; Walker, Sebastian (December 2025). Sentencing Principles, Procedure and Practice 2026. London: Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN   9780414131392.
16. Fisher, Jonathan; Milne, Alexander; Bewsey, Jane; Herd, Andrew; Arlidge, Anthony; Parry, Jacques (2020). Arlidge and Parry on fraud (Sixth ed.). London: Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN   9780414069398.
17. Holdham, Susan; Beldam, Alix (2018). Court of Appeal Criminal Division: a practitioners' guide (Second ed.). London: Sweet & Maxwell, Thomson Reuters. ISBN   9780414064737.
18. Ashford, Mark; Branston, Gareth; Redhouse, Naomi (2024). Blackstones' Handbook of Youths in the Criminal Courts (Third ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-891314-6.
19. Dalton, Bartholomew; Liggins, Caroline (2024). Blackstone's Magistrates' Court Handbook 2024. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198906605.
20. Serious Fraud, Investigation & Trial (Fifth ed.). London: LexisNexis. 2023. ISBN   9781474323352.
21. Fraud: Criminal Law and Procedure. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN   9780199235308.
22. Rook, Peter; Ward, Robert (November 2025). Rook and Ward on Sexual Offences Law & Practice. London: Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN   9780414130302.
23. Lees, Patricia; Laws, Eleanor (2022). Sexual Offences Referencer 3e (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, Incorporated. ISBN   9780192844439.
24. McCormac, Kevin; Brown, Philip; Davies, Olwen; Dodds, Malcolm (September 2025). Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences (32nd ed.). London. ISBN   9780414130098.
25. Zander, Michael (March 2023). The Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (Ninth ed.). London: Sweet & Maxwell. ISBN   9780414104808.
26. Horder, Jeremy (2022). Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law (Tenth ed.). OUP. ISBN   9780192897381.
27. Leading Works in Criminal Law. Chapter 10.
28. Card, Richard; Molloy, Jill; Cross, Rupert; Jones, Philip Asterley (June 2016). Card, Cross & Jones: Criminal Law (Twenty-second ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198753094.
29. Kyd, Sally; Bansal, Daniel; Elliott, Tracey; Walters, Mark Austin; Clarkson, Christopher M. V.; Keating, Heather M. (2024). Clarkson and Keating: Criminal Law: Text and Materials (Eleventh ed.). London: Thomson Reuters. ISBN   9780414119802.
30. Baker, Dennis J.; Williams, Glanville Llewelyn (December 2024). Glanville Williams & Dennis Baker treatise of criminal law (Sixth ed.). London: LexisNexis. ISBN   9781474330121.
31. Child, J. J.; Simester, A. P.; Spencer, John R.; Stark, Findlay; Virgo, Graham (September 2022). Simester and Sullivan's criminal law: theory and doctrine (Eighth ed.). Oxford: Hart Publishing. ISBN   9781509964277.
32. Ian Dennis. "The Law Commission and the Criminal Law. Dyson, Lee and Stark. Fifty Years of the Law Commissions: The Dynamics of Law Reform. p 112
33. Roberts, Paul (2022). Roberts & Zuckerman's Criminal Evidence (Third ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   9780198824480.
34. James Griffiths (ed). Advanced Criminal Litigation in Practice. (City Law School). Ninth Edition. Oxford University Press. 2010. p 4.
35. Criminal Conversations: Victorian Crimes, Social Panic, and Moral Outrage. p 86.
36. "Reviews" (1909) 35 The Law Magazine and Review 244
37. (1964) 235 The Law Times 227 (24 April 1964)
38. Leading Works in Criminal Law. Chapter 3