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CASES AND MATERIALS ON CRIMINAL LAW(AMERICAN CASEBOOK SERIES)
ISBN: 0314177191
ISBN 13: 9780314177193
Author: JOSHUA DRESSLER
Edition: 4 th
Publisher: WEST
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2007
Pages: 1044
ISBN 13: 9780314177193
Author: JOSHUA DRESSLER
Edition: 4 th
Publisher: WEST
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2007
Pages: 1044
Book Summary
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 with for centuries
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 with for centuries
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