Chapter 1: The Nature and History of Criminal Law
Web Extra! 1-1. Encyclopedia.com: Principles of Criminal Law
Web Extra! 1-2 Wikipedia: Crime
Web Extra! 1-3. Encyclopedia.com: Common Law
Web Extra! 1-4. The Law Dictionary
Web Extra! 1-5. Plain English Legal Dictionary
Web Extra! 1-6. Roscoe Pound's "Jural Postulates"
Web Extra! 1-7. The Rule of Law
Web Extra! 1-8. Excerpts from Blackstone's Commentaries
Web Extra! 1-9. The Code of Hammurabi
Web Extra! 1-10. The Common Law
Web Extra! 1-11. Wikipedia: Legal Codes
Web Extra! 1-12. The American Law Institute
Web Extra! 1-13. Learn About Legal Research
Web Extra! 1-14. Basic Legal Citation
Chapter
2: Criminal Liability and the Essence of Crime
Web Extra! 2-1. American Bar Association
Web Extra! 2-2. American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Section
Web Extra! 2-3. Commonwealth v. Webster, 59 Mass. 295 (1850)
Web Extra! 2-4. Findlaw: mens rea
Web Extra! 2-5. Mental State and Criminal Liability
Web Extra! 2-6. Proving Guilty Knowledge (State v. Semakula)
Web Extra! 2-7. Morissette v. United States, 342 U.S. 246, 250 (1952)
Chapter
3: Expanding the Concept of Crime
Web Extra! 3-1. Law Desk Legal Dictionary: Elements of Crime
Chapter
4: Extending Criminal Liability: Inchoate
Offenses and Parties to Crime
Web Extra! 4-1. U.S. v. Davis, 8 F.3d 923 (2d Cir. 1993)
Web Extra! 4-2. Criminal Attempt
Web Extra! 4-3. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Kelley, 58 A.2d 375 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1948)
Web Extra! 4-4. People v. Powell, 63 N.Y. 88 (1875)
Web Extra! 4-5. U.S. v. Alvarez, 625 F.2d 1196 (5th Cir. 1980)
Web Extra! 4-6. Criminal Complicity
Web Extra! 4-7. Vaughn and Sons v. State of Texas, 649 S.W. 2d 677 (1983)
Chapter
5: Justifications as Defenses
Web Extra! 5-1. Defenses
Web Extra! 5-2. 'Lectric Law Library: Self-defense
Web Extra! 5-3. Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985)
Chapter
6: Excuses as Defenses
Web Extra! 6-1. Commonwealth of Kentucky Penal Code: Ignorance and Mistake
Web Extra! 6-2. Ratzlaf v. U.S., 114 S. Ct. 655 (1994)
Web Extra! 6-3. Sorrells v. U.S., 287 U.S. 435 (1932)
Web Extra! 6-4. Emerging Defenses
Web Extra! 6-5. Report to Congress: Battering and Its Effects
Chapter
7: The Defense of Insanity
Web Extra! 7-1. Westbrook v. State, 658 So.2d 847 (Miss. 1995)
Web Extra! 7-2. Cooper v. Oklahoma, 517 U.S. 348 (1996)
Web Extra! 7-3.
Washington Post: Insanity and the Criminal Law
Web Extra! 7-4. Durham v. U.S., 1954 DC 212 (1972)
Web Extra! 7-5. Legal Information Institute: Diminished Responsibility
Chapter
8: Legal and Social Dimensions of Personal Crime: Homicide
Web Extra! 8-1. Encyclopedia.com: Murder
Web Extra! 8-2. Euthanasia Information
Web Extra! 8-3. End Of Life Choices (Legislative guidelines section)
Web Extra! 8-4. Kevorkian History
Chapter
9: Legal and Social Dimensions
of Personal Crime: Assault, Battery, and Other Personal Crimes
Web Extra! 9-1. Antistalking Web Site
Web Extra! 9-2. Attorney General's report on cyberstalking
Web Extra! 9-3. National Sexual Violence Resource Center (NSVRC)
Web Extra! 9-4. The 911 Commission Report
Chapter 10: Legal and Social Dimensions of Property and Computer Crimes
Web Extra! 10-1. Wikipedia: Theft
Web Extra! 10-2. Encyclopedia.com: Embezzlement
Web Extra! 10-3. Encyclopedia.com: Extortion
Web Extra! 10-4. FTC.gov: Identity theft
Web Extra! 10-5. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
Web Extra! 10-6. National Fraud Information Center
Web Extra! 10-7. Cybercrime.gov
Web Extra! 10-8. Computer Crime Laws by State
Web Extra! 10-9. Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, U.S. Department of Justice.
Chapter
11: Offenses Against Public Order and
the Administration of Justice
Web Extra! 11-1. City of Houston v. Hill, 482 U.S. 451, 459 (1987)
Web Extra! 11-2. Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U.S. 352 (1983)
Web Extra! 11-3. Encyclopedia.com: vagrancy
Web Extra! 11-4. National Rifle Association
Web Extra! 11-5. Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Web Extra! 11-6. CNN: Guns Under Fire
Chapter 12: Offenses Against Public Morality
Web Extra! 12-1. Roth v. U.S., 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
Web Extra! 12-2. Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15 (1973)
Web Extra! 12-3. ACLU's Lesbian and Gay Rights Project
Web Extra! 12-4. U.S. v. Ursery, 518 U.S. 267 (1996)
Chapter
13: Victims and the Law
Web Extra! 13-1. Victims Asistance Online
Web Extra! 13-2. National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA)
Web Extra! 13-3. National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC)
Web Extra! 13-4. Uniform Crime Reports
Web Extra! 13-5. The NIBRS Project
Web Extra! 13-6. NCVS Data
Chapter 14: Punishment
and Sentencing
Web Extra! 14-1. Wikipedia: Crime And Punishment
Web Extra! 14-2. National Association of Sentencing Advocates
Web Extra! 14-3. Center for Restorative Justice and Peacemaking
Web Extra! 14-4. Mitigating Circumstances
Web Extra! 14-5. The Sentencing Project
Web Extra! 14-6. Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism
Web Extra! 14-7. Southern Poverty Law Center
Web Extra! 14-8. Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)
Web Extra! 14-9. Cornell Law School Death Penalty Project
Web Extra! 14-10. Capital Defense Network
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