This successful and time-tested text features a classic organization, and traditional presentation of case law, coupled with coverage of recent trends in law and ample student pedagogy. The authors' combined legal and practical experience provides students with first-hand insights into the American legal system. Utilizing extensive case material, this book covers the historical background of criminal law and has been thoroughly updated to include the latest Supreme Court decisions. With forty pages less than the previous edition, this Fourth Edition is more manageable and accessible than ever. This is one of two "splits" of the combined CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE, Fifth Edition text (2005, Wadsworth) by the same authors.
"This is the seventh edition of this book. A number of interesting developments have occurred since the last edition.
127 For criticism, see N Cavanagh, 'Corporate Criminal Liability: An Assessment of the Models of Fault' (2011) 75 JCrim L 414. Although Cavanagh argues that this model is preferable to the other options, he suggests that it nevertheless ...
134 For criticism, see N Cavanagh, 'Corporate Criminal Liability: An Assessment of the Models of Fault' (2011) 75 J Crim L 414. Although Cavanagh argues that this model is preferable to the other options, he suggests that it ...
FURTHER READING Corporate liability C. Clarkson, 'Kicking Corporate Bodies and D. Bergman, The Case for Corporate Responsi- Damning their Souls' (1996)59 MLR557 bility (2000) J. Gobert, 'Corporate Criminality: Four N. Cavanagh, ...
Bourke's Criminal Law, Victoria
Bourke's Criminal Law Victoria
Particularly since students' basic Criminal Law courses draw on penal laws from any number of jurisdictions, this book will be their first exposure to an actual criminal law system, in which each law-shaping institution can react to the ...
Similarly , Perkins and Boyce explain that " presence at the scene of an offense is not itself sufficient to constitute any sort of criminal guilt . Obviously a terrified onlooker is not to be punished for his mere misfortune in having ...
28 It is clear, e.g. from his reference to a "mere intention unevidenced by an observable act,"29 that he was interpreting "actus reus" as an act, resembling the narrow meaning of Austin and Holmes.30 Professor J. W. C. Turner adopted ...
The Sixth Edition is an entire reworking of this classic casebook. Beyond its traditional role in teaching a broad-gauge federal criminal law course, the book is well suited for use in white collar crime courses or seminars.