Criminal law : cases and materials.
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| Author / Creator: | Kaplan, John, 1929-1989. |
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| Edition: | 4th ed. / John Kaplan, Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder. |
| Imprint: | Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Law & Business, c2000. |
| Description: | xxxix, 1245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4772047 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The Career of a Criminal Case
- A. Procedure Before Trial
- B. Substantive Legal Issues Before Trial
- C. Procedure at Trial
- D. Substantive Legal Issues on Appeal
- 2. Sources of Criminal Law
- A. Statutes
- B. Precedent
- C. Constitutions
- 3. The Analysis of Criminal Liability
- A. The Purpose of Analysis
- B. The Model Penal Code Scheme
- C. The German Scheme
- 4. Burdens of Proof
- A. Allocation of Burdens of Proof in Historical Perspective
- B. Burdens of Proof And Due Process
- Part I. Just Punishment
- Chapter 1. The Purposes And Limits of Punishment
- A. An Introductory Problem
- B. Utilitarianism And Retributivism
- C. Utilitarian Punishment
- D. Retribution
- E. Beyond Utility And Desert: The New Educative Theories of Punishment
- F. Proportionality
- G. The Federal Sentencing Guidelines
- Part II. The Criminal Offense
- Chapter 2. The Criminal Act
- A. The Need For An Actus Reus
- B. Omissions
- C. The Requirement of Voluntariness
- D. The Prohibition of 'Status' Crimes
- E. Legality
- F. Specificity
- Chapter 3. The Guilty Mind and Responsibility
- A. The Requirement of a Guilty Mind
- B. Categories of Culpability
- C. Mistake and Mens Rea Default Rules
- D. 'Mistake of Law'
- E. Capacity For Mens Rea
- Chapter 4. Causation
- A. 'But For' Causation
- B. Proximate Cause: Forseeability And Related Limitations
- C. Intervening Causes
- D. Causation By Omission: Duties
- Part III. Homicide Offenses
- Chapter 5. Intentional Homicide
- A. Intentional Murder (Second Degree)
- B. Premeditated Murder (First Degree)
- C. Voluntary Manslaughter
- Chapter 6. Unintentional Homicide
- A. Involuntary Manslaughter
- B. Reckless Murder
- C. Homicide in the Course of Another Crime
- Chapter 7. Capital Murder And The Death Penalty
- A. An Historical and Constitutional Summary
- B. The New Capital Statutes
- C. Categorical Limits on the Death Penalty
- Part IV. Justification And Excuse
- A. Introduction
- Chapter 8. Defensive Force, Necessity, and Duress
- B. Defensive Force
- C. Choice of Evils
- D. Duress
- Chapter 9. Mental Illness As a Defense
- A. Introduction
- B. The M'Naghten Rule and Cognition
- C. Cognition and Volition: The Road from M'Naghten and Back
- D. Reprise: Reassessing the Insanity Defense
- E. 'Quasi-Insanity' Defenses
- F. 'Diminished Capacity'
- Chapter 10. Attempt
- A. The Punishment for Attempt
- B. The Mens Rea for Attempt
- C. The Actus Reus of Attempt
- D. Impossibility
- Chapter 11. Complicity
- A. The Accessorial Act
- B. Mens Rea of Complicity
- C. Ac and Mens Rea: An Exercise
- D. Relations of Parties
- Chapter 12. Conspiracy
- A. The Nature of Conspiracy
- B. The Agreement
- C. The Mens Rea of Conspiracy
- D. Special Mens Rea Problems of Conspiracy
- E. The Incidents of Conspiracy
- F. The Parties to and Objects of Conspiracy
- G. The RICO Statute and the Frontier of Conspiracy
- Chapter 13. Criminal Liability of Corporations
- A. Respondeat Superior and the Premise of Crporate Liability
- B. The MPC and the 'Corporate Mind'
- C. Corporate Homicide
- Part V. Additional Offenses
- Chapter 14. Theft Offenses
- A. Theft
- B. Fraud
- C. Extortion
- D. A Note on Robbery and Burglary
- Chapter 15. Rape
- A. Introduction
- B. The Requirement of 'Utmost Resistance'
- C. 'Reasonable' or 'Earnest' Resistance
- D. Forcible Compulsion
- E. Nonconsent
- F. Lack of Affirmative Expression of Consent
- G. Incapacity to Consent
- H. Rape by Fraud
- I. Rape by Extortion
- J. Mens Rea
- K. Evidentiary Reforms
- L. Martial Rape
- Appendix A. A Note on the Model Penal Code
- Appendix B. The Model Penal Code
- Table of Cases
- Table of Model Penal Code Sections
- Index