Criminal law
Subtitle: case studies & controversies
By: Paul H. Robinson
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781454807025
Subjects: Cases; Criminal law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of criminal law and its structure; title: The legality principle; title: Theories of punishment; title: Culpability requirements; title: Culpability and mistakes; title: Homicide : doctrines of aggravations; title: Death penalty; title: Homicide: doctrines of mitigation; title: Causation; title: Attempt liability; title: Impossibility; title: Conspiracy; title: Voluntary intoxication; title: Complicity; title: The act requirement and libaility for an omission or possession; title: Lesser evils defense; title: Public authority justifications; title: Defensive force justifications; title: Mistake as to a justification; title: Mistake excuses; title: Insanity; title: Disability excuses; title: Nonexculpatory defenses; title: Entrapment; title: Rape; title: AHte crimes; title: Corporate criminality; title: Criminal law in the technological age.