How criminal law works : a conceptual and practical guide / Samuel H. Pillsbury.
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Durham, N.C. :
Carolina Academic Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE : BASIC PRINCIPLES: Introducing criminal law
- Basic principles of punishment and responsibility
- The liability formula : essential elements and affirmative defenses
- Proof and persuasion
- INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO : ACT AND MENS REA: The Voluntary Act Requirement
- Introducing mens rea
- Mens rea in statutory context : the art of reading criminal statutes
- Mistakes of fact and law
- INTRODUCTION TO PART THREE : CRIMES OF VIOLENCE : HOMICIDE AND RAPE: Purpose to kill murder
- Provocation
- Unintentional killings : depraved heart murder and involuntary manslaughter
- Felony murder
- Causation
- Rape
- INTRODUCTION TO PART FOUR : INCHOATE LIABILITY: Attempt
- Accomplice liability
- Conspiracy
- INTRODUCTION TO PART FIVE : DEFENSES: Self-defense
- Intoxication
- Insanity and related doctrines.