Publisher's Synopsis
A student treatise that explains the basic rules on all core criminal law topics, including the Model Penal Code’s position and the most of the common deviations from it.
Features:
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Robinson is a leading scholar in the field; Cahill is coauthor, with Robinson, of Law Without Justice (Oxford University Press, 2005)
- Offers lucid explanations and descriptions of the rules of criminal law
- Provides a complete treatment of the Model Penal Code’s positions on each topic
- Includes excellent realistic hypotheticals
- More user friendly:
- Adds a mini “table of paragraph headings” at the start of each section
- Updates the text and line edited for an easier read
- Refreshes the opening hypothetical for each section and the marginal notes
- Deletes the bibliographies at the end of each section
- Pares down the number of footnotes
- New topics covered, including new material on the scope of criminalization; the participants in the criminal-justice process and their institutional roles; offenses targeting group criminality; endangerment offenses; fraud offenses; and new chapters on possession offenses, offenses against public administration, and offenses against public values
- Adds a new co-author to the book, Michael T. Cahill, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
