Criminal law
Subtitle: cases and materials
By: by George E. Dix, M. Michael Sharlot.
Contributors: Sharlot, M. Michael.
Edition: 6th ed.
Series: American casebook series
Publisher: Thomson/West; Thompson/West
Published: 2008
Place of publication: St. Paul, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 933
ISBN-13: 9780314180193
Subjects: Criminal law -- United States -- Cases.
Genres: Cases.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Criminalization policy; title: Constitutional issues regarding criminaliza; title: tion and punishment; title: General principles of criminal liability : introduction; title: General principles of criminal liability : the act; title: General principles of criminal liability : the state of mind; title: Homicide : grading the criminal causation of death; title: General principles of criminal liability : results and the requirement of causation; title: General principles of criminal liability : attendant circumstances and sexual assault; title: The inchoate crimes; title: General principles of criminal liability : complicity; title: "Defenses," justification and excuse; title: Defenses and other doctrines related mental illness.