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Criminal Law: Cases and Materials

Summary of Contents

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Special Notice

Introduction

I. JUST PUNISHMENT
1. The Purposes and Limits of Punishment

II. THEELEMENTS OF THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE
2. The Criminal Act
3. The Guilty Mind
4. Causation of Harm

III. HOMICIDE OFFENSES
5. Intentional Homicide
6. Unintentional Homicide
7. Capital Murder and the Death Penalty

IV. JUSTIFICATION AND EXCUSE
8. Defensive Force, Necessity, and Duress
9. Mental Illness as a Defense

V. ATTRIBUTION OF CRIMINALITY
10. Attempt
11. Complicity
12. Conspiracy
13. Criminal Liability of Corporations

VI. ADDITIONAL OFFENSES
14. Theft Offenses
15. Rape

Appendix A. A Note on the Model Penal Code
Appendix B. The Model Penal Code

Table of Cases
Table of Model Penal Code Sections
Table of Cases 
Index

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