The Glannon guide to criminal law

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Contents

• A very short introduction

• Nature of criminal law

• Elements of a crime

• Strict liability crimes

• Mistake of fact

• Mistake of law

• Causation

• Homicide : an overview

• Homicide : murder

• Manslaughter

• Felony murder and misdemeanor manslaughter (unlawful law doctrine)-- Attempt

• Solicitation and other inchoate offenses

• Accomplice liability

• Conspiracy

• Introduction to defenses, self-defense, and defense of another

• Defense of property, law enforcement defenses, and necessity

• Duress

• Insanity

• Intoxication, infancy, and entrapment

• Rape

• Theft crimes

• Other crimes against person and property

• Sentencing and the death penalty

• Closing closers