Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies, 2nd Edition

Skillful use of case studies as a vehicle for exploring the full range of Criminal Law makes Criminal Law: Case Studies and Controversies, Second Edition, distinctly compelling for students. A smart pedagogical design and generous teaching support make teaching from it a real pleasure.

This carefully crafted text conveys traditional material in a refreshing and engaging new format that includes:

• excellent case studies representing many different jurisdictions and based on interesting and colorful real world cases. These are accompanied by over 100 photographs
• each principal case is followed by the statutes that existed in the jurisdiction at the time of the offense. This allows teaching statutory interpretation and application
• treatise-like summaries of the law that give students an overview, introduce underlying principles, and provide context
• problem hypotheticals that enable students to test their understanding of and apply legal principles

• a “core case” opinion of particular historical or theoretical importance has been added to each section to allow teachers to incorporate appellate opinions into their teaching
• nearly 100 new real-world problem cases that test students on issues presented in the treatise materials and are effective and entertaining vehicles for teaching the material in class
• each section identifies issues of current controversy in the area, and an advanced issues appendix includes excerpts from the literature on each side of the issue – allowing professors the flexibility to select the issues they have a special interest in covering
• timely new topics such as battered spouse syndrome, the torture of terrorists, and more
• a thoroughly updated Teacher’s Manual that includes:
  • updates to the “aftermath” subsections
  • new and additional handouts for class use
• an extensive author website— http://csc.law.upenn.edu—provides:
  • a digital version of the Teacher’s Manual
  • appellate opinions for principal cases
  • a list of sources used to develop the principal case narratives
  • a discussion board
  • an on-line liability survey for polling students on appropriate punishment in the principal cases
  • additional public criminal law resources