Criminal Law: Cases and Materials

Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, Eighth Edition, is written by a well-respected authorship team that provides comprehensive examination of criminal law under both the Model Penal Code and common law. Interspersed with thoughtful excerpts that provide social, political, and criminological background the black letter law, this casebook focuses on an interdisciplinary approach that provides a useful starting point for classroom discussion. The eighth edition has been updated to provide coverage of recent changes in the law, especially in the areas of sentencing and the Eighth Amendment, and includes notes and questions, making the book more useful for exam preparation.

Features: 

• Improvements in the Teacher’s Manual designed to make casebook accessible and useful for new professors
• Updated to provide coverage of recent changes in the law, especially in the areas of sentencing and the Eighth Amendment
• Updated notes and questions making book more useful for exam preparation

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Special Notice

Introduction

I: Just Punishment
1: The Purposes and Limits of Punishment

II: The Elements of Criminal Offense
2: The Criminal Act
3: The Guilty Mind
4: Causation

III: Homicide Offenses
5: Intentional Homicide
6: Unintentional Homicide
7: Capital Murder and the Death Penalty

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

Appendix A: A Note on the Model Penal Code
Appendix B: The Model Penal Code

Table of Cases
Table of Model Penal Code Sections
Index