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Principles of Criminal Law
ISBN: 9780801308369 | 0801308364
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Pearson College Div
Pub. Date: 7/1/1996
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This book presents basic concepts or principles of criminal law in definitions, focus boxes, and practicums. All of these features are designed to assist the student in understanding this often confusing area of the law.
This extremely practical introduction to criminal law examines specific crimes, the rules of criminal responsibility, and criminology in general. It discusses controversial and exciting issues and how they relate to the moral dilemmas facing criminal justice today.
This extremely practical introduction to criminal law examines specific crimes, the rules of criminal responsibility, and criminology in general. It discusses controversial and exciting issues and how they relate to the moral dilemmas facing criminal justice today.
| Preface | |
| Sources of Criminal Law | |
| Punishment | |
| Principles of Criminal Responsibility | |
| Morals Versus Law | |
| Classification of Crimes | |
| Origins of Criminal Law | |
| Case Law | |
| Reform of Criminal Law | |
| Limitations on Criminal Liability | |
| Bill of Rights | |
| Eighth Amendment | ... MORE|
| Due Process | |
| Jurisdiction | |
| Social Harm | |
| Right to Privacy | |
| Legality | |
| Equal Protection | |
| Double Jeopardy | |
| Basic Requirements of a Criminal Act | |
| Act-Actus Reus | |
| Intent-Mens Rea | |
| Joinder of Intent and Act | |
| Causation | |
| Inchoate or Anticipatory Crimes and Criminal Liability | |
| Attempt | |
| Solicitation | |
| Conspiracy | |
| Accomplices and Accessories | |
| Comparing and Contrasting Inchoate Crimes | |
| Defenses | |
| Criminal Responsibility | |
| Justification and Excuse | |
| Procedural Defenses | |
| Homicide | |
| Murder | |
| Felony-Murder | |
| Voluntary Manslaughter | |
| Involuntary Manslaughter | |
| Negligent Manslaughter | |
| Special Problems in Homicide | |
| Comparing and Contrasting Homicides | |
| Sex Offenses | |
| Rape | |
| Sodomy and Oral Copulation | |
| Other Sexual Acts and Offenses | |
| Other Crimes against Persons | |
| Kidnapping | |
| False Imprisonment | |
| Assault and Battery | |
| Aggravated Assault and Battery | |
| Mayhem | |
| Robbery and Extortion | |
| Robbery | |
| Extortion | |
| Special Problems in Robbery and Extortion | |
| Theft and Other Crimes Involving | |
| Property | |
| Larceny | |
| Embezzlement | |
| False Pretenses | |
| Consolidation of Theft Offenses | |
| Receiving Stolen Property | |
| Forgery | |
| Counterfeiting | |
| Crimes against Habitation | |
| Burglary | |
| Arson | |
| Special Problems in Crimes against Habitation | |
| Crimes against Public Morals | |
| Obscenity | |
| Prostitution | |
| Games of Chance | |
| Public Corruption | |
| Narcotic and Alcohol Offenses | |
| Narcotic Offenses | |
| Alcohol Offenses | |
| Solutions | |
| Special Crimes | |
| Introduction | |
| Child Abuse | |
| Elder Abuse | |
| Spousal Abuse | |
| Sentencing and Punishment | |
| Introduction to Sentencing | |
| Types of Sentences | |
| Incarceration and Its Alternatives | |
| Victim Rights | |
| The Death Penalty | |
| Case Index | |
| Subject Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Harvey Wallace is an associate professor and director of the Victims Institute at California State University, Fresno.
