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Most first-year students think that the substantive side of Criminal Law is easy. But as many students find out every year, the subject can be very subtle indeed. Emanuel Law Outlines: Criminal Law helps you spot and understand these subtleties. Virtually every Model Penal Code provision is analyzed in detail. 

The reason: Steve Emanuel and his team of sharp legal experts put into each Emanuel Law Outline the crucial essentials of what you need to know about law in order for you to succeed. They tell you how law professors test and what they test on and for each individual legal topic they present the key information in a form that's concise and astonishingly comprehensible.

Criminal Law topics covered include:
Actus Reus and Mens Rea; Causation: Cause in Fact, Proximate Cause; Unintended Victims; Unintended Manner of Harm; Responsibility: Insanity, Diminished Responsibility, Automatism, Intoxication, Infancy; Justification and Excuse: Duress, Necessity, Self-Defense, Defense of Others, Defense of Property; Consent; Entrapment; Attempt: Mental State, Mere Preparation; Impossibility; Conspriacy: The Agreement, Mens Rea, The Conspiratorial Objective, Multiple Objectives, Multiple Parties, Duration of Conspiracy, The Plurality Requirement, Accomplice; Liability and Solicitation: Parties to Crime, The Act Requirement, Mental State, Additional Crimes by Principal, Guilt of the Principal, Withdrawal by the Accomplice, Victims as Accomplices, Post-Crime Assistance, Solicitation; Crimes Against the Person: Homicide, Murder, Felony Murder, Degrees of Murder, Voluntary Manslaughter, Involuntary Manslaughter; Assult, Battery & Mayhem; Rape; Kidnapping; Theft Crimes: Larceny, Embezzlement, False Pretenses, Consolidation of Theft, Burglary; Robbery; Blackmail and Extortion. 

Special features include:
A capsule summary summarizing the entire subject for night-before-the-exam review;
Essay, short-answer, and MBE-style multiple-choice exam questions and answers to completely drill the concepts into your head.

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