Criminal Law in a Nutshell

by Loewy

• ISBN13: 9780314238603
• ISBN10: 0314238603
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: West Group

Table of Contents

Dedication	iii
Preface	v
Table of Cases	xvii
PART I. PUNISHMENT
Punishment	1	(24)
The Distinguishing Feature of the Criminal Law	1	(1)
Purposes of Punishment	2	(6)
Reformation	2	(1)
Restraint	3	(2)
Retribution	5	(1)
Deterrence	6	(1)
Individual Deterrence	6	(1)
General Deterrence	6	(2)
Punishment in Practice (Some Hard Cases)	8	(5)
Conflicting Purposes	8	(4)
No Apparent Purpose	12	(1)
Equality-An Unexpressed Theory of Punishment	13	(2)
Compensation	15	(1)
Disproportionality	16	(4)
Capital Punishment	20	(5)
PART II. SPECIFIC CRIMES
Homicide	25	(26)
Introduction	25	(3)
Willful, Deliberate, and Premeditated	28	(3)
Intent to Cause Serious Bodily Injury	31	(1)
Provocation	32	(4)
Assisted Suicide	36	(1)
Involuntary Manslaughter	37	(3)
Reckless Homicide (Negligent Homicide, Vehicular Homicide)	40	(1)
Depraved Heart Murder	41	(2)
Felony Murder	43	(5)
Misdemeanor Manslaughter	48	(3)
Causation	51	(7)
Introduction	51	(1)
Intentional Killings	52	(3)
Unintentional Killings	55	(2)
Year and a Day Rule	57	(1)
Rape	58	(6)
The Traditional View	58	(1)
Statutory Changes	59	(1)
Rape by Fraud or Coercion	60	(2)
Statutory Rape	62	(2)
Other Crimes Against the Person	64	(6)
Battery	64	(1)
Assault	64	(1)
Aggravated Assault and Battery	65	(1)
Mayhem	66	(1)
Kidnapping and Related Offenses	67	(3)
Self-Defense and Related Defenses	70	(15)
Introduction	70	(1)
In General	70	(2)
Battered-Spouse Syndrome	72	(1)
Retreat Rule	73	(2)
Imperfect Self-Defense	75	(3)
Defense of Others	78	(1)
Resisting Unlawful Arrest	79	(1)
Apprehension of Criminals	80	(3)
Protection Of Property and Crime Prevention	83	(2)
Crimes Against Property	85	(38)
Introduction	85	(1)
The Elements of Larceny	86	(6)
Introduction	86	(1)
Trespassory Taking	86	(1)
Asportation (Carrying Away)	87	(1)
Valuable Personal Property	88	(1)
Of Another	89	(1)
Intent to Permanently Deprive the Person Entitled to Possession of That Possession	90	(2)
Types of Larceny	92	(5)
Larceny by Stealth	92	(1)
Larceny by an Employee (Servant)	92	(2)
Larceny by a Finder	94	(1)
Larceny by a Bailee	95	(1)
Larceny by Trick	96	(1)
Embezzlement	97	(3)
False Pretenses	100	(7)
Introduction	100	(1)
Obtaining Title to Property	101	(1)
Knowingly or Recklessly Making a False Representation	102	(1)
Of a Presently Existing Fact	103	(3)
Of Pecuniary Significance	106	(1)
Which Is Intended to and Does Defraud the Victim	107	(1)
Forgery and Related Offenses	107	(2)
Receiving Stolen Goods	109	(1)
Robbery	110	(2)
Extortion (Blackmail)	112	(2)
Consolidation of Theft Offenses	114	(2)
Burglary	116	(3)
Arson and Related Offenses	119	(4)
PART III. INGREDIENTS OF A CRIME
Mens Rea (Intent)	123	(22)
In General	123	(2)
Model Penal Code Terminology	125	(1)
Transferred Intent	126	(3)
Liability Without Fault	129	(1)
Limitations on Liability Without Fault	130	(3)
Constitutional Limitations	130	(2)
Non-Constitutional Limitations	132	(1)
Mistake of Fact	133	(5)
Mistake of Law	138	(7)
Actus Reus	145	(16)
Introduction	145	(1)
Voluntariness	146	(2)
Actus Reus as a Constitutional Minimum	148	(3)
Concurrence of Actus Reus and Mens Rea	151	(1)
Actus Reus and Strict Liability	152	(2)
Omissions	154	(7)
PART IV. SPECIAL DEFENSES
Insanity	161	(21)
Introduction	161	(1)
M'Naghten Right-Wrong Test	162	(3)
Irresistible Impulse	165	(1)
The Durham Test	166	(3)
M.P.C. Test	169	(3)
Abolition of the Insanity Defense	172	(2)
Disposition of Insane Defendants	174	(2)
Interrelationship Between Automatism and Insanity	176	(1)
The Effect of Insanity on the Specific Elements of a Crime	177	(2)
Insanity After the Crime	179	(3)
Other Defenses	182	(17)
Infancy	182	(2)
Intoxication	184	(4)
Voluntary Intoxication	184	(4)
Involuntary Intoxication	188	(1)
Duress (Coercion)	188	(3)
Necessity	191	(2)
Entrapment	193	(3)
Excessive Government Involvement	196	(3)
PART V. PROOF OF FACTS
Burden of Proof	199	(10)
Relevance to Substantive Criminal Law	199	(1)
The General Rule	200	(1)
What Is A Reasonable Doubt	201	(3)
Expansion of Winship (Mullaney v. Wilbur)	204	(1)
Contraction of the Rule (Patterson v. New York)	205	(4)
Presumptions and Inferences	209	(6)
Definitions	209	(2)
Constitutionality	211	(4)
PART VI. INCHOATE AND GROUP CRIMINALITY
Attempt	215	(26)
General Scope and Purpose	215	(2)
Mens Rea	217	(2)
Proximity to Completion	219	(5)
Abandonment	224	(4)
Solicitation Vis-A-Vis Attempt	228	(2)
Other Preparatory Offenses	230	(3)
Burglary	230	(1)
Possession	231	(1)
Vagrancy	232	(1)
Attempt to Attempt	233	(1)
Impossibility	234	(7)
Accountability for the Acts of Others	241	(19)
Parties to Crime	241	(3)
Actus Reus (How Far Must One Go)	244	(3)
Mens Rea (International Crimes)	247	(4)
Scope of an Aider's Liability	251	(1)
Mens Rea (Unintentional Crimes)	252	(3)
Relationship to Principal's Liability	255	(2)
Special Personal Defenses	257	(1)
Abandonment	258	(2)
Conspiracy	260	(22)
Introduction	260	(1)
Punishment	261	(1)
Basis for Complicity	262	(2)
The Object Which Renders a Conspiracy Criminal	264	(2)
Agreement---The Actus Reus of Conspiracy	266	(4)
Scope of the Agreement---One Conspiracy or Many	270	(1)
Mens Rea	271	(3)
Procedural Peculiarities	274	(3)
Political Conspiracies and the First Amendment	277	(2)
RICO	279	(3)
Corporate Criminal Liability	282	(5)
Theoretical Problems	282	(1)
Punishment	282	(1)
Whose Conduct Binds a Corporation	283	(1)
Statutory Construction Problem	283	(2)
The Corporation and Its Alter Egos	285	(2)
PART VII. LIMITATIONS OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
Limitations of the Criminal Law	287	(15)
Vagueness	287	(5)
Ex Post Facto Laws	292	(3)
Common Law Crimes	295	(2)
Victimless Crimes	297	(5)
Non-Constitutional Limitations	297	(2)
Constitutional Limitations	299	(3)
Perspective	302	(3)
Index	305