A short & happy guide to criminal law /
"This is the study guide that you really need. Small and quirky is better for first year law students than big and boring. Other study guides include many minor rules, but minor rules rarely play a major role in law school exams. It might be comforting to buy the thickest study guide you can fi...
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St. Paul, MN :
West Academic Publishing,
[2016]
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| Series: | Short & happy law series
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Table of Contents:
- Thinking like a lawyer and learning like a law student
- An overview of criminal law
- The criminal process
- Statutory interpretation and sources of law
- Philosophies of punishment
- The guilty hand
- The guilty mind
- Mistakes and the guilty mind
- Intoxication
- Homicide: an overview
- Common law murder
- Premeditated and deliberate murder
- Felony murder
- Manslaughter
- Causation
- Rape
- Miscellaneous crimes against the person
- Property crimes
- Inchoate crimes: an overview
- Solicitation
- Conspiracy
- Attempt
- Complicity and liability for crimes of others
- Defensive force
- Duress and necessity
- Insanity and related defenses
- Tips for writing law school exam