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Criminal Law: Examples and Explanations
Criminal Law: Examples and Explanations
Frank A. Schubert's Criminal Law: The Basics introduces students to the fundamentals of substantive criminal law. It emphasizes two underlying themes. First, the common law heritage that has so influenced criminal law in this country.
After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. The series is trusted for its expert summary of the principal cases in your casebook.
In short, the text combines theory and practice and is compact, student friendly, flexible, and high tech.
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The purposes and limits of punishment -- The Criminal Act -- The guilty mind -- Causation -- Intentional homicide -- Unintentional homicide -- Capital murder and the death penalty -- Defense force, necessity, and duress -- Mental illness as ...
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The story of American criminal law has been the emergence of a more utilitarian conception of criminal offending as the imposition of risk or the violation of consent, combined with culpability.
Classification and Characterization of Crimes and Proceedings; Theories of Punishment; Burden of Proof; Sources and General Limitations: Common Law Crimes, Statutory Interpretation, Constitutional Limits on Creating Crimes, Jurisdiction; Basic Premises:...
"A systematic and comprehensive comparative analysis, of criminal law, focused on two major jurisdictions: the United States and Germany."--Jacket.
This volume is one of two updated splits of the combined CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE, Eighth Edition (c. 2014), by the same author.
Criminal Law: Cases, Materials, and Text
Many of the principal cases put the old wine of the criminal law into new bottles that students will find meaningful and interesting.
Additionally, the book provides practice problems in many chapters, giving students the opportunity to apply the law.
Unlike most criminal law texts that examine cases and statutes from across the country, this book concentrates on one particular jurisdiction, Ohio.
This text aims to combine breadth of coverage with readability and sets out the principal points of criminal law in a systematic and thorough way. This new edition has been...