This edition gives full attention to the new constitutional context in which South African criminal law now operates. It also looks at the emerging culture of human rights and freedoms which has begun to generate a significant shift in perceptions of the "boni mores" of a new South African society. The law is stated as at June 1996, and references to the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa are to the final Constitution enacted in 1996.

Cases & Materials On Criminal Law is an established casebook on criminal law and companion to Principles of Criminal Law, 3rd edition (2005), where the general principles of the South African criminal law and many of the specific crimes are fully analysed.

Substantially revised by Jonathan Burchell, this third edition covers the general principles of specific crimes, including new sections on the reform of sexual offences and organised crime. Over 50 new extracts and a companion CD-ROM containing an additional 17 extracts from cases and legislation have been included in this edition.

This book can also be used on its own as it contains substantial extracts from judgments, with succinct explanatory headnotes

Includes CD-ROM with an additional 17 extracts from cases and legislation.