Criminal Law: Cases and Materials

✍ Scribed by John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder

• Publisher: Aspen Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 1217
• Edition: 9
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ninth edition. | Frederick, MD: Aspen Publishing, [2021] | Series: Aspen casebook series | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Traditional first year criminal law textbook”—Provided by publisher

✦ Table of Contents

Contents xi Preface xxv Acknowledgments xxix Special Notice xxxiii
Introduction 1
I
JUST PUNISHMENT 19
1 The Purposes and Limits of Punishment 27
II
THE ELEMENTS OF THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE 113
2 The Criminal Act 115
3 The Guilty Mind 195
4 Causation 281
III
HOMICIDE OFFENSES 331
5 Intentional Homicide 349
6 Unintentional Homicide 413
7 Capital Murder and the Death Penalty 477
ix
x
Summary of Contents
IV
JUSTIFICATION AND EXCUSE
8 Defensive Force, Necessity, and Duress 9 Mental Illness as a Defense
V
ATTRIBUTION OF CRIMINALITY
10 Attempt 11 Complicity 12 Conspiracy
VI
ADDITIONAL OFFENSES
13 Rape
14 Theft Offenses
15 Perjury, False Statements, and Obstruction of Justice
527
535 631
683
685 749 827
889
891
979 1037
1095 1099
1151
1161
1163
Appendix A Appendix B
A Note on the Model Penal Code The Model Penal Code
Table of Cases
Table of Model Penal Code Sections Index