Criminal Law

Presenting substantive criminal law with a clarity that greatly enhances teaching and student comprehension, this edition of CRIMINAL LAW: Cases and Materials offers timely and streamlined coverage of homicide among its many new features. Bob Weisberg and new co-author Guyora Binder provide: reorganized coverage of the death penalty new coverage of intriguing cultural defenses for self defense and defensive force in chapters on homicide. Upholding the 'liveliness' trademark of this successful book, The authors interweave appellate case law with timely newspaper articles, excerpts from FBI manuals, and other rich interdisciplinary materials to help your students better Understand The law. Other features to this edition include: new chapters on corporate liability and complicity more demographic analysis of who and why we punish the reorganization of strict liability and culpability into one chapter, closing with the Cheek and Ratzlaf Supreme Court cases careful editing of RICO materials, incorporating World Trade Center materials thoroughly revised insanity materials expanded theft materials, including white collar crime, embezzlement, insider trading, and cyber crime Enhanced accessibility: a new brief introduction new and improved textual explanations a revised Teacher's Manual