Taking a problem-centered approach, Criminal Law: Problems in Context is a valuable teaching and learning tool for law and criminology students and their instructors. Students are presented with a critical framework for analysing the complexities of criminal law cases.

Using the framework of the criminal trial, ideas about the substance and processes of crime and justice are presented in a way that confirm or challenge students' understanding. The book provides students with the techniques to reserach and analyse the operation of criminal justice.