Law of Crimes
Pondicherry University · LL.B. Semester 3
Unit 1 — Concept of crime
Crime, morality and distinction between crime and tort -Classification of offences · Kinds of punishment. Elements of crime · Actusreus and mensrea · Commission and omissions · Stages of crime · Parties tocrime
Unit 2 — Jurisdiction
Territorial and extra- territorial · Persons exempted from the operation of the Indian PenalCode
Unit 3 — Criminal liability
Vicarious liability · Joint and constructive liability · Corporate criminal liability · Abetment andconspiracy
Unit 4 — General defences
Excusable and justifiabledefences
Unit 5 — Offences against the State
Waging war, Treason and Sedition · Offences against public tranquility · Unlawful assembly, rioting andaffray
Unit 6 — Offences against body
Culpable homicide and Murder · Hurt and Grievous hurt -Abduction and kidnapping · Wrongful restraint and Wrongful confinement · Rape and unnatural offences · Criminal force andassault
Unit 7 — Offences against property
Theft, extortion, robbery and dacoity · Criminal misappropriation and criminal breach of trust · Cheating, mischief and forgery -Criminal trespass, house trespass and housebreaking
Unit 8 — Giving and fabricating false evidence
Public nuisance · Obscene acts -Criminal intimidation · Insult and annoyance -Defamation
Unit 9 — Offences against marriage, election and religion
Offences against women andchildren