Criminal Law: Home

"The body of law defining offenses against the community at large, regulating how suspects are investigated, charged, and tried, and establishing punishments for convicted offenders. — Also termed penal law. " CRIMINAL LAW, Black's Law Dictionary (12th ed. 2024)

• Introduction: Setting the Stage
  • Nature, Sources, and Limits of Criminal Law
  • Criminal Law in a Procedural Context: Pre-Trial
  • Criminal Law in a Procedural Context: Trial by Jury
  • Proof of Guilt at Trial
  • Jury Nullification
• Principles of Punishment
• Actus Reus
  • Voluntary Acts
  • Omissions
  • Social Harm
• Mens Rea
  • Nature of Mens Rea
  • Issues in Proving Culpability 
  • Strict Liability
  • Mistake and Mens Rea
• Causation
  • Actual Cause
  • Proximate Cause
  • Concurrence of the Elements
• Criminal Homicide
  • Intentional Killings 
  • Unintentional Killings: Unjustified Risk-Taking
  • Unintentional Killings: Unlawful Conduct
  • Capital Murder
• Rape and Sexual Offenses
• Defenses to Crime
  • Categories of Defenses
  • Burden of Proof
• Inchoate Offenses
  • Attempt
  • Solicitation
  • Conspiracy 
• Liability for Conduct of Another
  • Accomplice Liability
  • Conspiracy Liability
  • Vicarious Liability
  • Corporate Liability
• Theft
  • Larceny
  • Embezzlement
  • False Pretenses
  • Mail, Wire, Computer Fraud