Product Description: The 2008 eighth edition of Cases and Comments on Criminal Law continues the format of subject-matter structure that was introduced several editions before and has proven successful and eminently workable in the classroom. At the same time, the eighth edition strikes several new themes designed to modernize the book and make it more meaningful in today's justice system as well as more accessible to the students...read more

Product Description: Criminal Law affords a beginning student insight into the criminal justice process as an introduction to casework on substantive criminal law. Examines the conceptual battles that surround crimes; "intent to cause death" in case of an AIDS sufferer who seeks to transmit the disease; the assisted suicide issue; right to die cases; and retention of the "born alive" rule...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)