Friday, January 11, 2013

Cases and Materials on Criminal Law 6e, Dressler


Cases and Materials on Criminal Law 6th Edition PDF Download Ebook. Joshua Dressler provides an excellent tool for teaching students the common law foundations of the criminal law and modern statutory reform, including the Model Penal Code.

Along the way, the casebook considers modern controversies (e.g., shaming; punishment, rape law, self-defense by battered women, euthanasia, the role of culture in determining culpability), and creatively uses literature (e.g., examining insanity through Edgar Allen Poe's The-Tell Tale Heart) and even brain teasers to confront (as the Preface states) the Big Questions that philosophers, theologians, scientists, and poets, as well as lawyers, have grappled with for centuries.

Professor Stephen Garvey (Cornell) joins the casebook beginning with this new edition. The Sixth Edition, as in the past, includes some new cases, as well as updates in the notes that bring current issues of criminal law to the fore. Students should leave a course in criminal law with a substantial body of knowledge. In the context of this casebook, this means that students will become familiar with the general and specific; Penal theory matters.

A course in criminal law offers students an opportunity to consider jurisprudential concerns. A goal of the book is to put the criminal law in its philosophical context; and In understanding doctrine, other things matter too. Since the criminal law seeks to affect and to render judgments about human behavior, this book takes some note of the findings of the behavioral sciences. Students also will see that social, economic, and political forces inevitably shape the law.

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