Criminal Law

This textbook introduces criminal law and its fundamentals, the organization of the criminal justice system, and substantive criminal law, from its common-law sources to its modern statutory development. It covers elements of and parties to crimes; attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy; homicidal offenses and other crimes against persons; property and white-collar crimes; drug and alcohol offenses; offenses against public health and the environment; crimes against public order, safety, and national security; offenses against justice and public administration; and criminal responsibility and defenses. This edition has updated judicial decisions, statutes, and trials; new summaries of key Supreme Court decisions; definitions of terms in margins; updated chapter vignettes; more on criminal and civil law and the role of courts in developing criminal law; updated data on the FBI and prisons; updated material on military tribunals, implied powers, partial-birth abortion, marijuana laws, texting while driving, and the Commerce Clause; more on the Bill of Rights; revised material on freedom of religion and speech, seduction, and the Model Penal Code; new sections on bullying and product tampering; a revised section on “structuring” case transactions; updated statistics; added material on human trafficking; a rewritten section on legislative contempt; and more on Jacobson v. United States in the section on entrapment. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)