Criminal Law: Model Penal Code

by Dubber, Markus Dirk

• ISBN13: 9781587781780
• ISBN10: 1587781786
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: West Academic

Summary

The Model Penal Code has been called the principal text in criminal law teaching. It is an ambitious, and influential, attempt to work out the principles of American criminal law in a systematic way. By highlighting the Code's conceptual structure, this study aid helps students to navigate the Code's complex provisions and helps teachers unlock its full pedagogic potential, one all too easily obscured by a fragmented discussion of Code sections dealing with a variety of topics. The appendix includes the text of the Model Penal Code, parts I & II.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
About the Author	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
A Key to the Model Penal Code and to American Criminal Law	1	(6)
Origins: The ALI, Legal Process, and Treatmentism	7	(16)
Criminal Propensities	12	(2)
The Model Penal and Correctional Code	14	(3)
The Structure Of The Model Penal Code	17	(6)
The Model Penal Code in a Nutshell: Section 1.02	23	(9)
The Prerequisites of Criminal Liability: Definitions of Crimes and of Criminals	26	(2)
The Analysis of Criminal Liability: Three Levels of Inquiry	28	(4)
``Conduct That Inflicts or Threatens Substantial Harm to Individual or Public Interests'' ---Level One	32	(154)
``Conduct...''	33	(94)
Actus Reus	33	(1)
Act	33	(1)
Voluntariness	34	(1)
Omission	35	(5)
Possession	40	(2)
Mens Rea and Offense Elements	42	(1)
Element Types	43	(9)
Rules of Interpretation	52	(8)
The Modes of Culpability	60	(20)
Matching Conduct to Offense	80	(2)
Intoxication and Mistake	82	(2)
Intoxication	84	(6)
Mistake	90	(15)
Liability for Another's Conduct	105	(2)
Instruments	107	(3)
Complicity	110	(15)
Corporations	125	(2)
``...That Inflicts or Threatens...''	127	(52)
Causation	128	(13)
Inchoate Offenses	141	(3)
Attempt	144	(18)
Conspiracy	162	(11)
Solicitation	173	(4)
Renunciation	177	(2)
``...Substantial Harm to Individual or Public Interests''	179	(7)
Substantial Harm	180	(3)
Individual or Public Interests	183	(3)
``Unjustifiably''---Level Two	186	(61)
Defenses in General	186	(8)
Necessity	194	(8)
Defense of Persons (Self and Others) and of Property	202	(29)
Self--Defense	203	(1)
Use of Force Upon or Toward Another Person	204	(1)
Belief	205	(1)
Necessity	206	(2)
Unlawfulness	208	(7)
Immediacy and Protection	215	(2)
Self-- and Other--Defense	217	(1)
Defense of Property	218	(5)
Deadly Force	223	(8)
Law Enforcement	231	(7)
Consent	238	(9)
``Inexcusably''---Level Three	247	(40)
Excuses in the Model Penal Code	247	(4)
Duress	251	(8)
Entrapment	259	(3)
Ignorance of Law	262	(3)
Provocation and Diminished Capacity	265	(6)
Insanity and Infancy	271	(13)
Conclusion	282	(2)
Analysis of Criminal Liability	284	(3)
Appendix Model Penal Code	287	(172)
Table of Cases	459	(4)
Table of Model Penal Code Sections and Statutes	463	(6)
Index	469