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Tables of Contents for Criminal Law in a Nutshell
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Dedication
iii
Preface
v
Table of Cases
xvii
PART I. PUNISHMENT
Punishment
1
24
The Distinguishing Feature of the Criminal Law
1
1
Purposes of Punishment
2
6
Reformation
2
1
Restraint
3
2
Retribution
5
1
Deterrence
6
1
Individual Deterrence
6
1
General Deterrence
6
2
Punishment in Practice (Some Hard Cases)
8
5
Conflicting Purposes
8
4
No Apparent Purpose
12
1
Equality-An Unexpressed Theory of Punishment
13
2
Compensation
15
1
Disproportionality
16
4
Capital Punishment
20
5
PART II. SPECIFIC CRIMES
Homicide
25
26
Introduction
25
3
Willful, Deliberate, and Premeditated
28
3
Intent to Cause Serious Bodily Injury
31
1
Provocation
32
4
Assisted Suicide
36
1
Involuntary Manslaughter
37
3
Reckless Homicide (Negligent Homicide, Vehicular Homicide)
40
1
Depraved Heart Murder
41
2
Felony Murder
43
5
Misdemeanor Manslaughter
48
3
Causation
51
7
Introduction
51
1
Intentional Killings
52
3
Unintentional Killings
55
2
Year and a Day Rule
57
1
Rape
58
6
The Traditional View
58
1
Statutory Changes
59
1
Rape by Fraud or Coercion
60
2
Statutory Rape
62
2
Other Crimes Against the Person
64
6
Battery
64
1
Assault
64
1
Aggravated Assault and Battery
65
1
Mayhem
66
1
Kidnapping and Related Offenses
67
3
Self-Defense and Related Defenses
70
15
Introduction
70
1
In General
70
2
Battered-Spouse Syndrome
72
1
Retreat Rule
73
2
Imperfect Self-Defense
75
3
Defense of Others
78
1
Resisting Unlawful Arrest
79
1
Apprehension of Criminals
80
3
Protection Of Property and Crime Prevention
83
2
Crimes Against Property
85
38
Introduction
85
1
The Elements of Larceny
86
6
Introduction
86
1
Trespassory Taking
86
1
Asportation (Carrying Away)
87
1
Valuable Personal Property
88
1
Of Another
89
1
Intent to Permanently Deprive the Person Entitled to Possession of That Possession
90
2
Types of Larceny
92
5
Larceny by Stealth
92
1
Larceny by an Employee (Servant)
92
2
Larceny by a Finder
94
1
Larceny by a Bailee
95
1
Larceny by Trick
96
1
Embezzlement
97
3
False Pretenses
100
7
Introduction
100
1
Obtaining Title to Property
101
1
Knowingly or Recklessly Making a False Representation
102
1
Of a Presently Existing Fact
103
3
Of Pecuniary Significance
106
1
Which Is Intended to and Does Defraud the Victim
107
1
Forgery and Related Offenses
107
2
Receiving Stolen Goods
109
1
Robbery
110
2
Extortion (Blackmail)
112
2
Consolidation of Theft Offenses
114
2
Burglary
116
3
Arson and Related Offenses
119
4
PART III. INGREDIENTS OF A CRIME
Mens Rea (Intent)
123
22
In General
123
2
Model Penal Code Terminology
125
1
Transferred Intent
126
3
Liability Without Fault
129
1
Limitations on Liability Without Fault
130
3
Constitutional Limitations
130
2
Non-Constitutional Limitations
132
1
Mistake of Fact
133
5
Mistake of Law
138
7
Actus Reus
145
16
Introduction
145
1
Voluntariness
146
2
Actus Reus as a Constitutional Minimum
148
3
Concurrence of Actus Reus and Mens Rea
151
1
Actus Reus and Strict Liability
152
2
Omissions
154
7
PART IV. SPECIAL DEFENSES
Insanity
161
21
Introduction
161
1
M'Naghten Right-Wrong Test
162
3
Irresistible Impulse
165
1
The Durham Test
166
3
M.P.C. Test
169
3
Abolition of the Insanity Defense
172
2
Disposition of Insane Defendants
174
2
Interrelationship Between Automatism and Insanity
176
1
The Effect of Insanity on the Specific Elements of a Crime
177
2
Insanity After the Crime
179
3
Other Defenses
182
17
Infancy
182
2
Intoxication
184
4
Voluntary Intoxication
184
4
Involuntary Intoxication
188
1
Duress (Coercion)
188
3
Necessity
191
2
Entrapment
193
3
Excessive Government Involvement
196
3
PART V. PROOF OF FACTS
Burden of Proof
199
10
Relevance to Substantive Criminal Law
199
1
The General Rule
200
1
What Is A Reasonable Doubt
201
3
Expansion of Winship (Mullaney v. Wilbur)
204
1
Contraction of the Rule (Patterson v. New York)
205
4
Presumptions and Inferences
209
6
Definitions
209
2
Constitutionality
211
4
PART VI. INCHOATE AND GROUP CRIMINALITY
Attempt
215
26
General Scope and Purpose
215
2
Mens Rea
217
2
Proximity to Completion
219
5
Abandonment
224
4
Solicitation Vis-A-Vis Attempt
228
2
Other Preparatory Offenses
230
3
Burglary
230
1
Possession
231
1
Vagrancy
232
1
Attempt to Attempt
233
1
Impossibility
234
7
Accountability for the Acts of Others
241
19
Parties to Crime
241
3
Actus Reus (How Far Must One Go)
244
3
Mens Rea (International Crimes)
247
4
Scope of an Aider's Liability
251
1
Mens Rea (Unintentional Crimes)
252
3
Relationship to Principal's Liability
255
2
Special Personal Defenses
257
1
Abandonment
258
2
Conspiracy
260
22
Introduction
260
1
Punishment
261
1
Basis for Complicity
262
2
The Object Which Renders a Conspiracy Criminal
264
2
Agreement---The Actus Reus of Conspiracy
266
4
Scope of the Agreement---One Conspiracy or Many
270
1
Mens Rea
271
3
Procedural Peculiarities
274
3
Political Conspiracies and the First Amendment
277
2
RICO
279
3
Corporate Criminal Liability
282
5
Theoretical Problems
282
1
Punishment
282
1
Whose Conduct Binds a Corporation
283
1
Statutory Construction Problem
283
2
The Corporation and Its Alter Egos
285
2
PART VII. LIMITATIONS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
Limitations of the Criminal Law
287
15
Vagueness
287
5
Ex Post Facto Laws
292
3
Common Law Crimes
295
2
Victimless Crimes
297
5
Non-Constitutional Limitations
297
2
Constitutional Limitations
299
3
Perspective
302
3
Index
305