ENGLISH

Cases and Materials on Criminal Law

By Joshua Dressler

Book information

Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Year
2009
ISBN
0314206450, 9780314206459
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4014606 bytes)
Series
American Casebook Series
Edition
Fifth Edition
Pages
1099\1099
Time added
2024-08-04 22:05:00

Description

This popular casebook, through the selection of classic and modern cases, provides an excellent tool for teaching students the common law foundations of the criminal law and modern statutory reform, including the Model Penal Code. Along the way, the casebook considers modern controversies (e.g., shaming punishment, rape law, self-defense by battered women, euthanasia, the role of culture in determining culpability), and creatively uses literature (e.g., examining insanity through Edgar Allen Poe's The-Tell Tale Heart) and even brain teasers to confront (as the Preface states) the Big Questions . . . that philosophers, theologians, scientists, and poets, as well as lawyers, have grappled with for centuries.

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