Blackstone's Criminal Practice

Blackstone's Criminal Practice is a book about English criminal law. The First Edition was published by Blackstone Press in 1991. The Twelfth Edition (2002) was published by Oxford University Press as "A Blackstone Press Book". The Thirty-sixth Edition (2026) was published by Oxford University Press in 2025. The editor-in-chief of the first seventeen editions (1991 to 2007) was Peter Murphy. The general editors of the Eighteenth to Twenty-fourth editions (2008 to 2014) were Sir Anthony Hooper (who was Lord Justice Hooper until 2012) and David Ormerod. The editors in chief are Professor David Ormerod KC and David Perry KC.

It is one of the "main" books that lawyers practising on the criminal side use. The Crown Prosecution Service describe this book as a "standard source" and as a "recognised legal textbook", and say that the legal guidance given on their website is no substitute for a book such as this one. By 2002, it was the "leading" work for proceedings in the magistrates' courts. It was also described as one of the main or leading practitioner treatises by Tyrer and Lawton (2000), by Griffiths (2010), by Hannibal and Mountford and by Dyson and Meyer (2022). In 2016, the Judicial Executive Board selected Blackstone's Criminal Practice 2017 as the principal practitioner text for all criminal courts in England and Wales.

Blackstone's Criminal Practice was also published on CD-ROM.