Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials, Eighth Edition (Casebook)

Now in its Eighth Edition, bCRIMINAL LAW AND ITS PROCESSES: Cases and Materials/b maintains great success as the longtime leading book in Criminal Law. In addition to a highly respected and renowned authorship, this scholarly gem is distinguished by the intellectual integrity of its thematic framework, its teachability and the wealth and depth of its content. In addition to focusing on basic principles, analytical problems enhance student learning by testing their thought process, applications and interactions in context./pPbThis edition preserves the outstanding qualities that have earned it distinguished success:/bulli a highly respected authorship--(Kadish, Schulhofer, and new co-author Steiker comprised of nationally recognized and renowned scholars/lilicohesive intellectual framework¿ by viewing the law both as a system for apportioning blame in accordance with moral norms and as an instrument of social control, it provides an analytical tool with which students can interpret and understand doctrine/lilia cases-and-notes pedagogy with excerpted materials, questions, and problems/lilia focus on developing an understanding of principles and rules applicable to all crimes, rather than the detailed and disjointed elements of many particular crimes/liliproblems that enhance student understanding of the basic principles by testing their applications and interactions in the context of particular offenses/liliin-depth coverage of rape, homicide, and theft/li/ul/ppbThe Eighth Edition has been carefully updated to maintain the integrity of its framework, preserve its challenging content and enhance its teachability:/b/pulliit achieves continuity with its predecessors and makes little change in organization or coverage/lilimost principal teaching cases have been retained, with recent cases and illustrations added/liliediting throughout enhances the transparency of the organization and accessibility of the notes and questions, providing greater clarity and ease of teaching /liliorganization is designed to permit ready adaptation for longer or shorter courses/lilia new section gives detailed attention to issues of statutory interpretation/lilia new chapter on Discretion allows for study of the legal framework that governs charging, bargaining and sentencing, and the role they play in shaping determinations of culpability and punishment/liligreater attention is focused on the ways that sentencing considerations and the growth of federal criminal law have affected traditional criminal law principles and practices/lilinew attention is focused on international human rights and their implications for American criminal law/lilimore thorough examination of common law vocabulary and doctrine and a clarified organization enable students to differentiate more systematically between the common law and Model Penal Code approaches/lilia completely revised section on the death penalty deals more fully with contemporary debates and recent Supreme Court decisions/li/ul/ppbLOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL RESOURCES TO HELP YOU IN CRIMINAL LAW? TRY EXAMPLES EXPLANATIONS: CRIMINAL LAW 5E (9780735588295) AND THE WOLTERS KLUWER BOUVIER LAW DICTIONARY: 2011 STUDENT EDITION (9780735568525) --TWO OF MANY GREAT STUDY GUIDES FROM WOLTERS KLUWER LAW BUSINESS./b/p