Michael Cahill

Criminal Law, Second Edition (Aspen Student Treatise Series) Michael Cahill 2. izdevums

A student treatise that explains the basic rules on all core criminal law topics, including the Model Penal Code's position and the most of the common deviations from it.

Features:

• Robinson is a leading scholar in the field; Cahill is coauthor, with Robinson, of Law Without Justice (Oxford University Press, 2005)
• Offers lucid explanations and descriptions of the rules of criminal law
• Provides a complete treatment of the Model Penal Code's positions on each topic
• Includes excellent realistic hypotheticals

  New to the Second Edition:

  More user friendly:

  • Adds a mini "table of paragraph headings" at the start of each section
  • Updates the text and line edited for an easier read
  • Refreshes the opening hypothetical for each section and the marginal notes
  • Deletes the bibliographies at the end of each section
  • Pares down the number of footnotes
  • New topics covered, including new material on the scope of criminalization; the participants in the criminal-justice process and their institutional roles; offenses targeting group criminality; endangerment offenses; fraud offenses; and new chapters on possession offenses, offenses against public administration, and offenses against public values
  • Adds a new co-author to the book, Michael T. Cahill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School