American Criminal Law

<p>This coursebook offers an exciting new approach to teaching criminal law to graduate and undergraduate students and indeed to the general public. Each well-organized and student-friendly chapter offers historical context tells the story of a principal historic case provides a modern case that contrasts with the historic explains the legal issue at the heart of both cases includes a unique mapping feature describing the range of positions on the issue among the states today examines a key policy question on the topic and provides an aftermath that reports the final chapter to the historic and modern case stories. </p><p>By embedding sophisticated legal doctrine and analysis in real-world storytelling the book provides a uniquely effective approach to teaching American criminal law in programs on criminal justice political science public policy history philosophy and a range of other fields. </p>