Cases and Materials on Criminal Law, 5th

Name: Cases and Materials on Criminal Law, 5th
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ISBN: 9780314206459

ISBN-10: 0314206450

ISBN-13: 9780314206459

Edition: 5th 2010 (Revised)

Authors: Joshua Dressler

List price: $225.00

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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…

Book details

List price: $225.00
Edition: 5th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: West Academic
Publication date: 10/28/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1104
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 4.290
Language: English