Criminal Law / Edition 8

by Paul Marcus, Linda Malone, Geraldine Moohr, Cara Drinan

Overview

This casebook introduces the first-year student to the basics of American criminal law. Drawing on statutory, common and constitutional law, the book raises the questions of why and how we punish, and it enables instructors to discuss with students the thorny problem of the relationship between the state and the individual. As with most substantive criminal law courses, the book covers a range of topics including rationales for punishment, elements of key crimes, inchoate offenses, and defenses.

This most recent edition includes several new problems and comments reflecting contemporary challenges in the criminal justice system, such as extreme juvenile sentencing, criminalization of poverty, disproportionate punishment along race and class lines, redrafting of the Model Penal Code sections on sexual offenses, limits on deadly force in law enforcement, assisted suicide, and the erosion of the insanity defense.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781522105473
Publisher:	Carolina Academic Press
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Edition description:	Eighth Edition
Pages:	924
Product dimensions:	7.80(w) x 10.20(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

Paul Marcus is Haynes Professor of Law Emeritus and a Kelly Professor of Teaching Excellence Emeritus at the College of William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law.

Before her retirement, Linda Malone was the Marshall-Wythe Foundation Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Human Rights and National Security Law Program at the College of William & Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law.

Geraldine Moor is Professor Emerita at University of Houston Law Center.