A timely, real-world perspective on criminal law
Revel^® Criminal Law Today brings criminal law to life by relating it to the stories of today's headlines. Viewing law as a vital policymaking tool, Schmalleger explores the challenges of continually adapting the law to a complex, rapidly changing society. By providing real-world context, he helps students grasp the fundamental nature of law, general legal principles, and how the law functions in American society today. Now with revised learning objectives, the 7th edition includes a wide range of new cases, news stories, legal topics, and graphics providing contemporary examples of criminal law in action.

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Frank Schmalleger, PhD, is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Dr. Schmalleger holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Ohio State University, having earned both a master's and doctorate from Ohio State University, with a special emphasis in criminology.

From 1976 to 1994, he taught criminal justice courses at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. For the last 16 of those years, he chaired the university's Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice. He was named Professor Emeritus in 2001. As an adjunct professor with Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri, Schmalleger helped develop the university's graduate program in security administration and loss prevention. He taught courses in that curriculum for more than a decade. Schmalleger has also taught in the New School for Social Research's online graduate program, helping to build the world's first electronic classrooms in support of distance learning through computer telecommunications.

An avid internet user, Schmalleger is also the creator of award-winning websites, including one that supports this textbook. Frank Schmalleger is the author of numerous articles and many books, including the widely used Criminal Justice Today (Pearson, 2021), Criminology Today (Pearson, 2021), and Criminal Justice: A Brief Introduction (Pearson, 2020). See his Amazon author page at amazon.com/author/frankschmalleger.

1. The Nature and History of Criminal Law
2. Criminal Liability and the Essence of Crime
3. Expanding the Concept of Crime
4. Extending Criminal Liability: Inchoate Offenses and Parties to Crime
5. Justifications as Defenses
6. Defenses: Excuses and Insanity
7. Crimes against Persons: Homicide
8. Crimes against Persons: Assault, Sex Offenses, and Other Crimes
9. Property and Computer Crimes
10. Offenses against Public Order and the Administration of Justice
11. Offenses against Public Morality
12. Terrorism and Human Trafficking
13. Victims and the Law
14. Punishment and Sentencing

Appendices
A. How to Brief a Case
B. Model Penal Code Excerpts

Glossary
Table of Cases