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To Mike, Sam and Ben. With love. Guide to using the book Complete Criminal Law: Text, Cases, and Materials includes a number of different features that have been carefully designed to enrich your learning and help you along as you develop your understanding of criminal law. Key cases Helpful lists of the really key cases at the beginning of each topic highlight those extracts that you should pay special attention to. Thinking points Why was a certain decision reached in a particular case? Is D guilty of murder or manslaughter in the following vi examples? Regular thinking points throughout the text encourage you to pause and reflect on the key issues. Guidance on answering each one of these questions can be found on the Online Resource Centre. Examples Short, fictional examples of how the law would be applied in certain situations illustrate the practical application of what you are learning. Notes Figuring out exactly what the significance of a long case report or judgment is can be tricky. These short bullet-point sections follow the longer extracts in the book, and pull out the key points that you need to take from your reading of the extract. Section summaries Short summaries appear throughout the book at the end of key sections to reinforce your knowledge. You should use these to reflect on what you have just learnt. Chapter summaries Each chapter ends with a concise summary allowing you to check your understanding and return to any areas that G aren't yet completely clear. u id e t o u s in g t h e b o Problem solving o k The questions at the end of each chapter provide the ideal opportunity for you to test your understanding of a topic. vii They challenge you to apply your knowledge—either by preparing a full answer to a question, or by debating the issues with your fellow students. Again, guidance on how to approach these questions can be found on the Online Resource Centre. Further reading These suggestions for additional reading have been carefully selected to highlight key areas and to help deepen your knowledge of the subject. Guide to the Online Resource Centre The Online Resource Centre that accompanies this book provides students and lecturers with ready-to-use teaching and learning resources. They are free of charge, and are designed to complement the book and maximise the teaching and learning experience. http://www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/loveless3e/ viii For students These resources are available to all, enabling students to get the most from their textbook; no registration or password is required. Regular updates The author regularly updates this section of the site to account for recent cases and developments in criminal law that have occurred since publication of the book. These updates are accompanied by page references to the textbook, so you can easily see how the new developments relate to the existing law. Web links Links to useful websites enable you to instantly look at reliable sources of online information, and efficiently direct your online study. Guidance on answering the problem G questions and thinking points u id e Here is where you can find guidance on how to correctly to t answer all the thinking points and problem questions posed h e throughout the book. O n lin e R e s o u r c Exam-style questions and guidance e C e Revise for exams and test your knowledge by answering nt r these exam-style questions. Accompanying guidance helps e you to assess how you did. ix For lecturers These resources are password protected to ensure only lecturers can access them; each registration is personally checked to ensure the security of the site. Registering is easy: click on 'registration form' on the Online Resource Centre, complete a simple registration form which allows you to choose your own username and password, and access will be granted within three working days (cid:11)sub(cid:77)ect to (cid:89)eri(cid:551)cation(cid:12)(cid:17) Test bank Containing 150 multiple choice questions with answers and feedback; this is a fully customisable resource of ready- made revision assessments which you can use to test your students. It can be easily downloaded into your Virtual Learning Environment.