Rent 9780827367029 | Criminal Law and Procedure

Preface	p. xiii
Table of Cases	p. xix
Criminal Law
Introduction to the Legal System of the United States	p. 3
Federalism	p. 4
Separation of Powers	p. 7
The Structure of the Court System	p. 9
The Duties and Powers of the Judicial Branch	p. 13
Comparing Civil Law and Criminal Law	p. 15
Web Links	p. 20
Key Terms	p. 20
Review Questions	p. 20
Review Problems	p. 21
End Notes	p. 21
Introduction to Criminal Law	p. 23
The Distinction Between Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure	p. 24
The Power of Government to Regulate Behavior	p. 24
The Purposes of Punishing Criminal Law Violators	p. 27
Specific and General Deterrence	p. 27
Incapacitation	p. 28
Rehabilitation	p. 28
Retribution	p. 29
Sources of Criminal Law	p. 30
The Common Law	p. 30
Statutory Law	p. 37
Ordinances	p. 37
Administrative Law	p. 37
Court Rules	p. 40
The Model Penal Code	p. 42
Constitutional Law	p. 43
Web Links	p. 45
Key Terms	p. 45
Review Questions	p. 45
Review Problems	p. 46
End Notes	p. 46
The Two Essential Elements	p. 48
Mens Rea	p. 48
Mens Rea and the Common Law	p. 48
Strict Liability	p. 54
Vicarious Liability	p. 57
Current Approaches to Mens Rea	p. 59
Proving Mens Rea	p. 61
Motive	p. 62
Actus Reus	p. 63
Voluntariness	p. 63
Thoughts and Statements as Acts	p. 65
Personal Status as an Act	p. 65
Possession as an Act	p. 66
Omissions as Acts	p. 67
Causation	p. 69
Web Links	p. 74
Key Terms	p. 74
Review Questions	p. 74
Review Problems	p. 74
End Notes	p. 76
Crimes Against the Person	p. 79
Studying Crimes	p. 80
Homicide	p. 80
Homicide and the Common Law	p. 81
Statutory Approaches to Homicide	p. 85
Manslaughter	p. 93
The Model Penal Code Approach to Homicide	p. 96
Life, Death, and Homicide	p. 97
Suicide	p. 97
Corpus Delicti	p. 99
Assault and Battery	p. 100
Aggravated Assault and Battery	p. 101
Mayhem	p. 102
Sex Crimes	p. 102
Rape	p. 103
Nonforcible Rape	p. 105
Sodomy	p. 105
Rape Shield Laws	p. 106
Incest	p. 106
Sex Offenses Against Children	p. 106
Megan's Laws, Commitment, and Castration	p. 108
Kidnapping And False Imprisonment	p. 109
Kidnapping	p. 109
Parental Kidnapping	p. 110
False Imprisonment	p. 112
Stalking	p. 112
Civil Rights and Hate Crimes	p. 113
Web Links	p. 114
Key Terms	p. 115
Review Questions	p. 115
Review Problems	p. 115
End Notes	p. 116
Crimes Against Property and Habitation	p. 119
Arson	p. 120
Burglary	p. 121
Theft Crimes	p. 122
Introduction to Theft Crimes	p. 122
Larceny	p. 124
Embezzlement	p. 126
False Pretenses	p. 127
Receiving Stolen Property	p. 131
Robbery	p. 132
Extortion	p. 133
Consolidated Theft Statutes	p. 134
The Model Penal Code Consolidation	p. 136
Destruction of Property	p. 137
Computer Crimes	p. 138
Web Links	p. 142
Key Terms	p. 142
Review Questions	p. 142
Review Problems	p. 142
End Notes	p. 143
Crimes Against the Public	p. 145
Defining a "Crime Against The Public"	p. 146
Crimes Against Public Morality	p. 146
Prostitution and Solicitation	p. 146
Deviate Sexual Conduct	p. 147
Indecent Exposure and Lewdness	p. 149
Obscenity	p. 150
Regulating the Internet	p. 153
Crimes Against the Public Order	p. 154
Introduction	p. 154
Riot and Unlawful Assembly	p. 154
Distrubing the Peace	p. 155
Incitement/Advocacy of Unlawful Conduct	p. 155
Threats	p. 157
Vagrancy and Panhandling	p. 157
Drug and Alcohol Crimes	p. 160
Crimes Against the Administration of Government	p. 165
Perjury	p. 165
Bribery	p. 167
Tax Crimes	p. 168
Obstruction of Justice	p. 170
Contempt	p. 172
Crimes Against the Environment	p. 173
Clean Water Act	p. 175
Clean Air Act	p. 175
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act	p. 176
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act	p. 176
Occupational Safety and Health Act	p. 176
Toxic Substances Control Act	p. 176
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act	p. 177
Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act	p. 177
Endangered Species Act	p. 177
Marine Mammal Protection Act	p. 178
Web Links	p. 178
Key Terms	p. 178
Review Questions	p. 178
Review Problems	p. 179
End Notes	p. 180
Parties and Inchoate Offenses	p. 181
Parties to Crimes	p. 182
Inchoate Crimes	p. 183
Attempt	p. 183
Conspiracy	p. 186
Solicitation	p. 190
Web Links	p. 190
Key Terms	p. 191
Review Questions	p. 191
Review Problems	p. 191
End Notes	p. 192
Factual and Statutory Defenses	p. 193
"Defense" Defined	p. 194
Affirmative Defenses	p. 194
Insanity	p. 195
M'Naughten	p. 196
Irresistible Impulse	p. 197
Durham	p. 197
The Model Penal Code Test	p. 197
Guilty But Mentally Ill	p. 198
Procedures of the Insanity Defense	p. 198
Disposition of the Criminally Insane	p. 199
Insanity at the Time of Trial	p. 201
Duress and Necessity	p. 202
Use-of-Force Defenses	p. 203
Self-Defense	p. 203
Defense of Others	p. 205
Defense of Property and Habitation	p. 205
Imperfect Self-Defense	p. 206
Arrests	p. 206
Infancy	p. 210
Intoxication	p. 211
Mistake	p. 211
Entrapment	p. 212
Alibi and Consent	p. 213
Statutes of Limitation	p. 213
Web Links	p. 214
Key Terms	p. 214
Review Questions	p. 215
Review Problems	p. 215
End Notes	p. 216
Constitutional Defenses	p. 217
Introduction	p. 218
Double Jeopardy	p. 218
Self-Incrimination and Immunity	p. 219
Due Process and Equal Protection	p. 221
Vagueness and Overbreadth	p. 223
Ex Post Facto and Bills of Attainder	p. 223
First Amendment and Religion	p. 224
First Amendment and Speech	p. 231
Privacy and Other Unenumerated Rights	p. 238
Web Links	p. 243
Key Terms	p. 243
Review Questions	p. 243
Review Problems	p. 244
End Notes	p. 244
Criminal Procedure
Introduction and Participants	p. 247
Criminal Procedure Defined	p. 248
A Common-Law, Adversarial, and Accusatorial System	p. 248
The Due Process Model	p. 249
The Participants	p. 250
Law Enforcement Officers	p. 250
Prosecutors	p. 252
Judges	p. 259
Defense Attorneys	p. 259
Victims	p. 263
Liability of Governments and Their Officials	p. 264
Web Links	p. 266
Key Terms	p. 266
Review Questions	p. 266
Review Problems	p. 267
End Notes	p. 267
The Constitutional Aspects of Criminal Procedure	p. 269
Introduction	p. 270
Incorporation	p. 270
Expansion of Rights	p. 272
Exclusionary Rule	p. 272
Exclusionary Rule and Exceptions	p. 275
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree	p. 275
Standing	p. 276
State Constitutions and the "New Federalism"	p. 277
Web Links	p. 281
Key Terms	p. 281
Review Questions	p. 282
Review Problems	p. 282
End Notes	p. 282
Searches, Seizures, and Arrests	p. 283
The Fourth Amendment	p. 284
Privacy	p. 284
Probable Cause	p. 290
Searches and Seizures	p. 296
The Warrant Requirement	p. 296
Exceptions to the Search Warrant Requirement	p. 303
Arrest	p. 324
Defining Arrest	p. 324
The Warrant Preference	p. 325
Arrests in Protected Areas	p. 328
Search Incident to Arrest and the Protective Sweep	p. 328
Executing Arrest Warrants	p. 330
Illegal Arrests	p. 331
Considering Fourth Amendment Problems	p. 331
Web Links	p. 334
Key Terms	p. 334
Review Questions	p. 334
Review Problems	p. 334
End Notes	p. 335
Interrogation and Other Law Enforcement Practices	p. 337
Interrogations, Confessions, And Admissions	p. 338
Miranda	p. 338
Sixth Amendment	p. 348
Voluntariness Requirement	p. 348
Electronic Surveillance	p. 348
Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control Act	p. 348
Pretrial Identification Procedures	p. 351
Lineups and One-Man Showups	p. 352
The Fairness Right	p. 352
Photographs	p. 354
Scientific Identification Procedures	p. 354
Exclusion of Improper Identifications	p. 360
Web Links	p. 360
Key Terms	p. 361
Review Questions	p. 361
Review Problems	p. 361
End Notes	p. 362
The Pretrial Process	p. 363
Introduction	p. 364
Discovery and Investigation of Criminal Activity	p. 364
Arrest	p. 364
The Complaint	p. 364
Initial Appearance	p. 369
Pretrial Release and Detention	p. 369
Types of Release	p. 369
Eighth Amendment	p. 370
Detention	p. 370
Preliminary Hearing	p. 371
The Formal Charge	p. 374
Indictment and Grand Jury	p. 374
Information	p. 379
Arraignment	p. 379
Pretrial Activity	p. 380
Discovery	p. 380
Motion Practice	p. 385
Pretrial Conference	p. 387
Extradition and Detainers	p. 387
Removal	p. 388
Web Links	p. 389
Key Terms	p. 389
Review Questions	p. 389
Review Problems	p. 390
End Notes	p. 390
Trial	p. 391
Trial Rights of Defendants	p. 392
The Right to a Jury Trial	p. 392
The Right to a Public Trial	p. 393
The Right to Confrontation and Cross-Examination	p. 398
The Presumption of Innocence/Burden of Proof	p. 398
The Right to Speedy Trial	p. 399
The Right to Counsel	p. 401
Trial Procedure	p. 405
Voir Dire	p. 405
Preliminary Instructions	p. 405
Opening Statements	p. 406
The Prosecution's Case in Chief	p. 406
The Defense Case	p. 407
Rebuttal	p. 407
Closing Arguments	p. 408
Final Instructions	p. 408
Jury Deliberations and Verdict	p. 408
JNOV/New Trial	p. 409
Web Links	p. 409
Key Terms	p. 409
Review Questions	p. 410
Review Problems	p. 410
End Notes	p. 410
Sentencing and Appeal	p. 411
Sentencing	p. 412
Sentencing Procedure	p. 412
Forms of Punishment	p. 414
Habitual Offender Statutes	p. 439
Postconviction Remedies	p. 440
Appeal	p. 440
Habeas Corpus	p. 442
Web Links	p. 446
Key Terms	p. 446
Review Questions	p. 446
Review Problems	p. 447
End Notes	p. 447
The Constitution of the United States of America	p. 449
Selected Excerpts from the Model Penal Code	p. 461
Glossary	p. 497
Index	p. 501
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