Cases and Materials on Criminal Law

Name: Cases and Materials on Criminal Law
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ISBN: 9780314279828

ISBN-10: 0314279822

ISBN-13: 9780314279828

Edition: 6th 2012 (Revised)

Authors: Joshua Dressler, Stephen Garvey

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 grappled…

Book details

List price: $225.00
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: West Academic
Publication date: 10/8/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 1072
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 4.158
Language: English