Clear and easy to understand, Joel Samaha's best-selling CRIMINAL LAW helps you apply criminal law's enduring foundations and principles to fascinating, current court cases and specific crimes. With a balanced blend of case excerpts and author commentary, Samaha guides you as you hone your critical thinking and legal analysis skills. You'll see the principles, defenses, and elements of crime at work as you progress through the book-and you'll learn about the general principles of criminal liability and its defenses, as well as the elements of crimes against persons property, society, and crimes against the state. Featuring the latest topics and court cases, as well as many study tools to help you do well in this course, Samaha's CRIMINAL LAW is a text you will want to keep as a valuable reference even after you graduate and begin your career in the criminal justice field of your choosing.

"Samaha's CRIMINAL LAW is still the best book out there for undergraduates, both the pre-law and pre-law enforcement students."

Professor Joel Samaha (Ph.D., Northwestern University) teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, introduction to criminal justice, and The Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights at the University of Minnesota. He served as Chair of the school's Department of Criminal Justice Studies from 1974 through 1978, and now teaches and writes full time. He has taught both televised and radio courses in criminal justice and has co-taught a National Endowment of the Humanities seminar in legal and constitutional history. He was named Distinguished Teacher at the University of Minnesota in 1974. An active scholar, Professor Samaha has written articles which were published in the Historical Journal, The Amercian Journal of Legal History, Minnesota Law Review, and the William Mitchell Law Review. He has also written two other textbooks, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE and CRIMINAL JUSTICE, both now in their Seventh

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1. First Things First: The Nature and Limits of Criminal Law. 2. Constitutional Limits on Criminal Law. 3. The General Principles of Criminal Liability: Actus Rea. 4. The General Principles of Criminal Liability: Mens Rea, Concurrence, and Causation. 5. Defenses to Criminal Liability: Justifications. 6. Defenses to Criminal Liability: Excuses. 7. Parties to Crime and Vicarious Liability. 8. Inchoate Crimes: Attempt, Conspiracy, and Solicitation. 9. Crimes Against Persons I: Criminal Homicide. 10. Crimes Against Persons II: Criminal Sexual Conduct, Bodily Injury, and Personal Restraint. 11. Crimes Against Property. 12. Crimes Against Public Order and Morals. 13. Crimes Against the State.