Mapping American criminal law : variations across the 50 states /
"Containing 40 visually coded maps of the fifty states, this book offers an unprecedented look at America's diverse legal landscape." -- Publisher's description
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Santa Barbara, California :
Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC,
2018
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Table of Contents:
- Part one. Preliminary issues : punishment theory and legality
- Distributive principles of criminal law
- Habitual offender statutes
- Death penalty
- Legality requirement
- Part two. Homicide
- Provocation/extreme emotional disturbance
- Felony murder
- Causation
- Part three. Liability doctrines
- Transferred intent
- Consent to injury
- Mental illness and culpability
- Attempt
- Complicity
- Complicity liability of co conspirators
- Part four. Justification defenses
- Lesser evils/necessity defense
- Self-defense
- Law enforcement authority
- Part five. Excuse defenses
- Insanity defense
- Immaturity defense
- Part six. Nonexculpatory defenses
- Statute of limitations
- Exclusionary rule
- Entrapment defense
- Part seven. Offenses against the person and property
- Criminalizing risk creation
- Statutory rape
- Domestic violence
- Stalking and harassment
- Child neglect
- Deceptive business practices
- Extortion
- Part eight. Public order and decency offenses
- Adultery
- Criminal obscenity
- Child pornography
- Part nine. Offenses against the community
- Drug offenses
- Firearms possession offenses
- Predatory pricing
- Organized crime
- Fixing sporting events
- Part ten. Procedural issues
- Extradition
- Jurisdiction