Dix's Criminal Law: Cases and Materials 7th

Imprint
West Academic Publishing
ISBN-13
9781634597302
Primary Subject
Criminal Law
Format
eBook
Copyright
2015
Series
American Casebook Series
Publication Date
04/17/2015
Designed to facilitate inquiry into the broadest issues involved in the decision to employ the state's sanction to coerce conduct.

Description

Selected cases and materials are likely to evoke the interest of students. Preference is given to recent cases raising criminal law issues in the modern context. Cases are selected for their tendency to spark emotional responses in students and then to require the students to filter these reactions through the requirements of the law and its underlying rationales. Account is taken of the development of new crimes such as identity theft, carjacking, and home invasion. Discussions of federal constitutional limits on criminal law and substantive federal criminal law issues by the U.S. Supreme Court are also included. The new edition includes expanded coverage of sexual assault and "castle" issues related to self-defense law.