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Tables of Contents for Criminal Law in a Nutshell
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
v
 
Table of Cases
xix
 
PART I. PUNISHMENT
Punishment
1
24
The Distinguishing Feature of the Criminal Law
1
1
Purposes of Punishment
2
7
Reformation
2
1
Restraint
2
3
Retribution
5
1
Deterrence
6
1
Individual Deterrence
6
1
General Deterrence
7
2
Punishment in Practice (Some Hard Cases)
9
5
Conflicting Purposes
9
3
No Apparent Purpose
12
2
Equality---An Unexpressed Theory of Punishment
14
2
Compensation
16
1
Disproportionality
17
3
Capital Punishment
20
5
PART II. SPECIFIC CRIMES
Homicide
25
24
Introduction
25
3
Willful, Deliberate, and Premeditated
28
3
Intent to Cause Serious Bodily Injury
31
1
Provocation
32
3
Depraved Heart Murder
35
3
Recklessness (Criminal Negligence)
38
3
Reckless Homicide (Negligent Homicide, Vehicular Homicide)
41
1
Felony Murder
42
4
Misdemeanor Manslaughter
46
3
Causation
49
7
Introduction
49
1
Intentional Killings
50
3
Unintentional Killings
53
2
Year and a Day Rule
55
1
Other Crimes Against the Person
56
10
Battery
56
1
Assault
56
1
Aggravated Assault and Battery
57
1
Mayhem
58
1
Forcible Rape
59
3
Non-Forcible Rape and Related Offenses
62
2
Kidnapping and Related Offenses
64
2
Self-Defense and Related Defenses
66
15
Introduction
66
1
In General
66
2
Retreat Rule
68
2
Imperfect Self-Defense
70
3
Defense of Others
73
1
Resisting Unlawful Arrest
74
2
Apprehension of Criminals
76
3
Protection of Property and Crime Prevention
79
2
Crimes Against Property
81
37
Introduction
81
1
The Elements of Larceny
82
6
Introduction
82
1
Trespassory Taking
82
1
Asportation (Carrying Away)
83
1
Valuable Personal Property
84
1
Of Another
85
1
Intent to Permanently Deprive the Person Entitled to Possession of That Possession
86
2
Types of Larceny
88
6
Larceny by Stealth
88
1
Larceny by an Employee (Servant)
89
1
Larceny by a Finder
90
2
Larceny by a Bailee
92
1
Larceny by Trick
92
2
Embezzlement
94
3
False Pretenses
97
7
Introduction
97
1
Obtaining Title to Property
98
1
Knowingly or Recklessly Making a False Representation
98
1
Of a Presently Existing Fact
99
3
Of Pecuniary Significance
102
1
Which Is Intended to and Does Defraud the Victim
103
1
Forgery and Related Offenses
104
2
Receiving Stolen Goods
106
1
Robbery
107
1
Extortion (Blackmail)
108
3
Consolidation of Theft Offenses
111
2
Burglary
113
3
Arson and Related Offenses
116
2
PART III. INGREDIENTS OF A CRIME
Mens Rea (Intent)
118
22
In General
118
3
Transferred Intent
121
2
Liability Without Fault
123
2
Limitations on Liability Without Fault
125
2
Constitutional Limitations
125
1
Non-Constitutional Limitations
126
1
Mistake of Fact
127
6
Mistake of Law
133
7
Actus Reus
140
12
Introduction
140
1
Voluntariness
141
2
Concurrence of Actus Reus and Mens Rea
143
1
Actus Reus and Strict Liability
144
1
Omissions
145
7
PART IV. SPECIAL DEFENSES
Insanity
152
22
Introduction
152
1
M'Naghten Right-Wrong Test
153
3
Irresistible Impulse
156
2
The Durham Test
158
2
M. P. C. Test
160
3
Abolition of the Insanity Defense
163
3
Disposition of Insane Defendants
166
1
Interrelationship Between Automatism and Insanity
167
2
The Effect of Insanity on the Specific Elements of a Crime
169
1
Insanity After the Crime
170
4
Other Defenses
174
18
Infancy
174
1
Intoxication
175
4
Voluntary Intoxication
175
3
Involuntary Intoxication
178
1
Duress (Coercion)
179
2
Necessity
181
2
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
183
4
Entrapment
187
3
Excessive Government Involvement
190
2
PART V. PROOF OF FACTS
Burden of Proof
192
7
Relevance to Substantive Criminal Law
192
1
The General Rule
193
2
Expansion of the Rule (Mullaney v. Wilbur)
195
1
Contraction of the Rule (Patterson v. New York)
196
3
Presumptions and Inferences
199
6
Definitions
199
2
Constitutionality
201
4
PART VI. INCHOATE AND GROUP CRIMINALITY
Attempt
205
26
General Scope and Purpose
205
2
Mens Rea
207
2
Proximity to Completion
209
5
Abandonment
214
3
Solicitation Vis-a-Vis Attempt
217
3
Other Preparatory Offenses
220
3
Burglary
220
1
Possession
221
1
Vagrancy
222
1
Attempt to Attempt
223
1
Impossibility
224
7
Accountability for the Acts of Others
231
18
Parties to Crime
231
3
Actus Reus (How For Must One Go)
234
3
Mens Rea (Intentional Crimes)
237
4
Mens Rea (Unintentional Crimes)
241
3
Relationship to Principal's Liability
244
2
Special Personal Defenses
246
1
Abandonment
247
2
Conspiracy
249
24
Introduction
249
1
Punishment
250
1
Basis for Complicity
251
3
The Object Which Renders a Conspiracy Criminal
254
3
Agreement---The Actus Reus of Conspiracy
257
3
Scope of the Agreement---One Conspiracy or Many
260
2
Mens Rea
262
3
Procedural Peculiarities
265
4
Political Conspiracies and the First Amendment
269
2
Rico
271
2
PART VII. LIMITATIONS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
Limitations of the Criminal Law
273
16
Vagueness
273
5
Ex Post Facto Laws
278
3
Common Law Crimes
281
2
Victimless Crimes
283
6
Non-Constitutional Limitations
283
2
Constitutional Limitations
285
4
Perspective
289
4
Index
293