Product Description: In this second edition of his well-received introductory overview of the Model Penal Code, Markus Dubber retains the book's original aim to serve as an accessible companion to the Code. Professor Dubber unlocks the Model Penal Code's potential as a key to the study of American criminal law for law students and teachers, and for anyone else with an interest in understanding the basic contours of American criminal law...read more

Product Description: Paperback. Pub Date :2008-06-23 Pages: 559 Language: English Publisher: Aspen New York Criminal Law: Cases and Materials reflects the code-based and jurisdiction-specific nature of contemporary American criminal law Leading scholar Markus D...read more

Product Description: This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion. General principles of criminal liability receive prominent coverage in each essay―including discussions of rationales for punishment, the role and design of criminal codes, the general structure of criminal liability, accounts of mens rea, and the rights that criminal law is designed to protect―before the authors turn to more specific offenses like homicide, theft, sexual offenses, victimless crimes, and terrorism...read more