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| Criminal Law | |
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| Introduction to the Legal System of the United States | |
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| Federalism | |
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| Separation of Powers | |
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| The Structure of the Court System | |
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| Duties and Powers of the Judicial Branch | |
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| Comparing Civil Law and Criminal Law | |
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| The Authority of Government to Regulate Behavior | |
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| The Purposes of Punishing Criminal Law Violators | |
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| Specific and General Deterrence | |
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| Incapacitation | |
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| Rehabilitation | |
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| Retribution | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems & Critical Thinking Exercises | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Introduction to Criminal Law | |
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| The Distinction between Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure | |
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| Sources of Criminal Law | |
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| The Common Law | |
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| Statutory Law | |
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| Ordinances | |
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| Administrative Law | |
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| Court Rules | |
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| The Model Penal Code | |
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| Constitutional Law | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems & Critical Thinking Exercises | |
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| End Notes | |
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| The Two Essential Elements | |
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| Mens Rea | |
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| Mens Rea and the Common Law | |
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| Strict Liability | |
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| Vicarious Liability | |
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| Current Approaches to Mens Rea | |
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| Proving Mens Rea | |
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| Motive | |
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| Actus Reus | |
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| Voluntariness | |
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| Thoughts and Statements as Acts | |
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| Personal Status as an Act | |
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| Possession as an Act | |
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| Omissions as Acts | |
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| Causation | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems & Critical Thinking Exercises | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Crimes Against the Person | |
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| Studying Crimes | |
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| Homicide | |
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| Homicide and the Common Law | |
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| Statutory Approaches to Homicide | |
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| Manslaughter | |
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| The Model Penal Code Approach to Homicide | |
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| Life, Death, and Homicide | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Corpus Delicti | |
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| Assault and Battery | |
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| Aggravated Assault and Battery | |
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| Mayhem | |
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| Sex Crimes | |
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| Rape | |
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| Nonforcible Rape | |
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| Sodomy | |
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| Rape Shield Laws | |
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| Incest | |
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| Sex Offenses Against Children | |
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| Megan's Laws, Commitment, and Castration | |
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| Kidnapping and False Imprisonment | |
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| Kidnapping | |
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| Parental Kidnapping | |
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| False Imprisonment | |
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| Stalking | |
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| Civil Rights and Hate Crimes | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems & Critical Thinking Exercises | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Crimes Against Property and Habitation | |
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| Arson | |
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| Burglary | |
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| Theft Crimes | |
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| Introduction to Theft Crimes | |
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| Larceny | |
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| Embezzlement | |
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| False Pretenses | |
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| Receiving Stolen Property | |
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| Robbery | |
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| Extortion | |
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| Consolidated Theft Statutes | |
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| Identity Theft | |
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| The Model Penal Code Consolidation | |
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| Destruction of Property | |
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| Computer Crimes | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems & Critical Thinking Exercises | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Crimes Against the Public | |
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| Defining a “Crime Against the Public“ | |
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| Crimes Against Public Morality | |
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| Prostitution and Solicitation | |
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| Deviate Sexual Conduct | |
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| Indecent Exposure and Lewdness | |
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| Obscenity | |
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| Regulating the Internet | |
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| Crimes Against the Public Order | |
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| Riot and Unlawful Assembly | |
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| Disturbing the Peace | |
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| Incitement/Advocacy of Unlawful Conduct | |
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| Threats | |
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| Vagrancy and Panhandling | |
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| Crimes Involving Firearms | |
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| Drug and Alcohol Crimes | |
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| Crimes Against the Administration of Government | |
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| Perjury | |
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| Bribery | |
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| Tax Crimes | |
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| Obstruction of Justice | |
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| Contempt | |
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| Crimes Against Sovereignty and Security | |
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| Treason | |
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| Sedition and Espionage | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Crimes Against the Environment | |
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| Clean Water Act | |
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| Clean Air Act | |
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| Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act | |
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| Resource Conservation and Recovery Act | |
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| Occupational Safety and Health Act | |
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| Toxic Substances Control Act | |
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| Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act | |
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| Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act | |
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| Endangered Species Act | |
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| Marine Mammal Protection Act | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems & Critical Thinking Exercises | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Parties and Inchoate Offenses | |
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| Parties to Crimes | |
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| Inchoate Crimes | |
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| Attempt | |
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| Conspiracy | |
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| Solicitation | |
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| Web Links | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Review Questions | |
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| Problems & Critical Thinking Exercises | |
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| End Notes | |
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| Factual and Statutory Defenses | |
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| “Defense“ Defined | |
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| Affirmative Defenses | |
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| Insanity | |
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| M'Naghten | |
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| Irresistible Impulse | |
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| Durham | |
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| The Model Penal Code Test | |
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| Guilty But Mentally Ill | |
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| Procedures of the Insanity Defense | |
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| Disposition of the Criminally Insane | |
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| Insanity at the Time of Trial | |
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| Duress and Necessity | |
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| Use-of-Force Defenses | |
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| Self-Defense | |
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| Defense of Others | |
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| Defense of Property and Habitation | |
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| Impe | |