Expertly written to provide comprehensive coverage of the most crucial issues in a course, the Concise Hornbook Series features concise analyses by prominent scholars of basic areas of the law. The Series focuses on core principles and concepts fundamental to understanding the subject matter. LaFave's Principles of Criminal Law provides detailed discussion on the topics of responsibility, justification and excuse, inchoate crimes and accomplice liability. The book also gives attention to subjects such as causation, insanity and conspiracy.*
Introduction and general considerations
Sources and general limitations
Constitutional limits on power to create crimes
Mental states
Acts; concurrence and consequences
Insanity defense
Insanity : procedural considerations
Excuses and other conditions
Justification
Solicitation and attempt
Conspiracy
Parties; liability for conduct of another
Murder
Manslaughter; suicide assistance
Rape
Theft