This Cases & Materials on Criminal Law casebook contains new subject-matter materials, including cases, excerpts from scholarly literature, and/or notes on race-based jury nullification, techniques of statutory interpretation, and statutory rape. The role of culture in determining culpability for criminal conduct; proposed "new defenses"; anti-stalking legislation and laws that punish inchoate conduct on the Internet; and federal mail, wire, and computer fraud laws. It includes an excerpt from Willa Cather's O Pioneer (a Problem on homicide), and the complete Edgar Allan Poe short story The Tell-Tale Heart (a Problem on insanity).
Features and Benefits:
 Introduces the nature, source, and limits of criminal law;
Covers principles of punishment and penal theories;
Examines the requirements of previously defined conduct, vagueness, and lenity;
Defines actus reus regarding voluntary acts, omissions, and social harm;
Explains mens rea and general issues in proving culpability.
Table of Contents includes:
Principles of Punishment;
Modern Role of Criminal Statutes;
Actus Reas;
Mens Rea;
Causation;
Criminal Homicide;
Rape;
General Defenses to Crimes;
Inchoate Offenses;
Liability for the
Conduct of Another;
Theft;
Appendix: Model Penal Code. |
