List of main criminal law texts in England and Wales

Academic 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

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
• Phipson on Evidence
• 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
• Wilkinson's Road Traffic Offences
• Zander on PACE

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
• Criminal Law Week
• Journal of Criminal Law

Historic Works

• Blackstone's Commentaries, Book IV "Of Public Wrongs"
• Coke's Institutes of the Lawes of England, Part IV "Concerning High Treason and other Please of the Crown and Criminal Causes"
• de Bracton's Laws and Customs of England, Book III "The Crown and Pleas of the Crown"
• 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
• Kenny's Outlines of Criminal Law
• Russell on Crime
• Stephen's Digest of the Criminal Law
• Williams's Textbook of Criminal Law and Criminal Law: The General Part