Substantive criminal law
Subtitle: cases, comments and comparative materials
By: Luis E. Chiesa, Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, and Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center, SUNY Buffalo Law School
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 761
ISBN-13: 9781611635287
Subjects: Cases; Criminal law
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of punishment; title: Purposes of punishment; title: Principle of legality; title: Proportionality; title: Constitutional limits on criminalization decisions; title: Conduct: action, omission & possession; title: Causation; title: Subjective offense elements; title: Negating subjective offense elements; title: Complicity; title: Attempts; title: Conspiracy; title: Corporate criminal liability; title: Lesser evils; title: Defensive force justification; title: Law enforcement authority; title: Duress; title: Insanity; title: Mistake of law; title: Homicide; title: Rape.