Criminal Law
This library guide seeks to assist first-year law students in Criminal Law at NSU Shepard Broad College of Law.
Criminal Law Library Guide
This Criminal Law Library Guide seeks to help J.D. students in mastering course material by offering links to selected criminal law resources. These resources include, but are not limited to, case briefs, outlines, study aids, multimedia resources, practice multiple-choice questions and answers, and practice essay questions and answers.
Criminal Law Content
Black's Law Dictionary
For a definition of criminal law, please click here.
To search for a definition in Black's Law Dictionary on Westlaw, please click here.
Model Penal Code
The Model Penal Code is available here on LexisNexis.
West Academic Study Aids
These class preparation resources below provide case briefs keyed to specific casebooks.
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High Court Case Summaries on Criminal Law (Keyed to Dressler and Garvey, 9th ed.)
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This title contains briefs for each major case in Dressler and Garvey's casebook on Criminal Law. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781685614782Publication Date: September 27, 2022 -
High Court Summaries on Criminal Law (Keyed to Kadish, Schulhofer, and Barkow)
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Kadish's High Court Case Summaries on Criminal Law, 10th ed., contain well-prepared briefs for each major case in this casebook. High Court briefs are written to present the essential facts, issue, decision and rationale for each case in a clear, concise manner. While prepared briefs can never substitute for the insight gained by actually reading a case, these briefs will help readers to identify, understand, and absorb the core "take away" knowledge from each case. Moreover, these briefs are followed by a useful legal analysis, which provides extra tips and contextual background about each case, connecting the case to the broader concepts being developed throughout the casebook. This book also supplies case vocabulary, which defines new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases. Finally, to enhance the reader's recall, there is a corresponding memory graphic for each brief that portrays an entertaining visual representation of the relevant facts or law of the case.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781640209251Publication Date: May 6, 2018 -
High Court Summaries on Criminal Law (Keyed to Kaplan, Weisberg, and Binder, 9th ed.)
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This title contains briefs for each major case in Kaplan's casebook on Criminal Law. These briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core knowledge points from each case. They are followed by legal analysis, providing contextual background about each case, and connecting the case to the broader concepts developed throughout the casebook. This title also supplies case vocabulary, with definitions of new or unusual legal words found throughout the cases.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781636594842Publication Date: August 26, 2021 -
High Court Case Summaries on Criminal Law, Keyed to LaFave
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This title contains well-prepared briefs for each major case in LaFave's casebook on criminal law. High court briefs are written to present the essential facts, issue, decision and rationale for each case in a clear, concise manner. While prepared briefs can never substitute for the insight gained by actually reading a case, these briefs will help you identify, understand, and absorb the core "take away" knowledge from each case. Moreover, these briefs are followed by a useful legal analysis, which provides extra tips and contextual background about each case, connecting the case to the broader concepts being developed throughout the casebook. This book also supplies case vocabulary, which defines new or unusual legal words, and a memory graphic for each brief that is an entertaining visual representation of the relevant facts or law of the case.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780314279200Publication Date: December 28, 2011 -
Criminal Law Cold Call Companion by The day has arrived and your name rings out in class. This is it. The cold call. What might your professor ask? Did you understand the case? Did you miss anything important? Are you prepared? BARBRI & West Academic’s Cold Call Companion provides you with resources to critically analyze and brief a case, distill the main points of law, prepare for the kinds of questions professors may ask in class, and so much more. Included in each Cold Call Companion are: Animated case brief videos that bring the facts to life; A written case brief; Advice for prepping for class discussion; Contextual materials to offer additional color and background; Test Yourself questions; and Carefully curated sets of additional study materials to expand your knowledge of important concepts. Confidently prepare for and engage in classroom discussion, and easily navigate to the best and more relevant study aids – right when you need them! Cold Call Companion is your essential prep for class.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: August 5, 2024
Aspen Learning Library
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Casenote Legal Briefs for Criminal Law Keyed to Kadish and Schulhofer
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After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. Expert case studies and analyses and quicknote definitions of legal terms help you prepare for class discussion.
Here is why you need Casenote Legal Briefs to help you understand cases in your most difficult courses:
Each Casenote includes expert case summaries, which include the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case.
There is a Casenote for you! With dozens of Casenote Legal Briefs, you can find the Casenote to work with your assigned casebook and give you the extra understanding of all cases
Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543841251Publication Date: July 28, 2022 -
Casenote Legal Briefs for Criminal Law Keyed to Kaplan, Weisberg, and Binder
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After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. Expert case studies and analyses and quicknote definitions of legal terms help you prepare for class discussion.
Here is why you need Casenote Legal Briefs to help you understand cases in your most difficult courses:
Each Casenote includes expert case summaries, which include the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case.
There is a Casenote for you! With dozens of Casenote Legal Briefs, you can find the Casenote to work with your assigned casebook and give you the extra understanding of all cases
Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543841428Publication Date: August 26, 2021 -
Casenote Legal Briefs for Criminal Law, Keyed to Dressler and Garvey
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After your casebook, a Casenote Legal Brief is your most important reference source for the entire semester. Expert case studies and analyses and quicknote definitions of legal terms help you prepare for class discussion.
Here is why you need Casenote Legal Briefs to help you understand cases in your most difficult courses:
Each Casenote includes expert case summaries, which include the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case.
There is a Casenote for you! With dozens of Casenote Legal Briefs, you can find the Casenote to work with your assigned casebook and give you the extra understanding of all cases
Casenotes in 1L subjects include a Quick Course Outline to help you understand the relationships between course topics.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798886143546Publication Date: November 30, 2022
Quimbee
Please click here to find case briefs keyed to specific casebooks.
LexisNexis
Please click here for a case brief bank.
West Academic Study Aids
These study aids below are intended to provide content about Criminal Law.
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Acing Criminal Law, 5th ed.
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This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their own, and assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to procedural analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams. Other study aids provide sample problems, but none offer the systematic approach to problem solving found in this book.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887862828Publication Date: September 20, 2023 -
A Short and Happy Guide to Criminal Law, 3d ed.
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This book leaves newcomers to criminal law with what they need most: key concepts they can remember! Too many criminal law guides bury the novice in detailed rules when nine times out of ten mastery of the fundamental concepts is the key to success on the exam or in practice. Remembering these concepts is made easier by a “forest before the trees” organization and the use of quirky, often funny examples that stick the concepts to the reader’s memory. Outlines of key doctrinal points for each chapter are included. You'll laugh and learn. Bonus chapters offer valuable tips for students on how to succeed in the study of the law. This third edition includes updates to the doctrines of felony murder, rape, and diminished capacity and a short section on abolitionism.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887865836Publication Date: March 1, 2024 -
Quick Review of Criminal Law
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Quick Review of Criminal Law is a short, clear, concise, and substantive outline. It is designed to make the study of law clear and convenient, and it is designed to help students prepare for their law school exams. The main body is an outline of the substantive content that a student needs to prepare for a law school exam. The concise format provides a "Big Picture" overview allowing students to review the subject quickly prior to final exams.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781634594431Publication Date: July 9, 2018 -
Criminal Law in a Nutshell
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This guide helps you gain an overview of and develop perspective on the area of criminal law. It is organized into eight sections for quick reference. Expert discussion explores punishment, specific crimes, and the ingredients of a crime such as mens rea and actus reus. Other topics covered include special defenses, the burden of proof, and inchoate and group criminality. It also reflects on the limitations of criminal law.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781685610654Publication Date: March 26, 2024 -
Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law is an interactive workbook designed to effectively prepare students to pass exams. The most heavily tested legal rules are presented in a format that mirrors the way they arise as issues in typical testing fact patterns. Rule statements are set out in easy-to-memorize statements, with a breakdown of the element components and logical steps to take to apply new facts to each legal element.
Fluency with the legal terminology is also essential to exam success, so this Step-by-Step Guide includes fill-in-the-blank spaces to help you learn and memorize definitions of key terms as they are introduced, and a glossary of selected terms at the end for further reference.
In addition to learning the law and memorizing key rules and terms, success in law school also requires the hard work of deep learning, engaging with problems to test your own knowledge, and working toward gaining a strong command of all testable topics. To that end, this Guide contains short-answer Test Yourself questions. Working through these questions and then reading the answers and explanations to determine where your understanding is clear and where you must do additional work will help you master the skill of applying the relevant rules to new and different fact patterns. In addition to the short-answer questions, this Guide also includes numerous full-length essay questions with sample answers —providing further practice to test your knowledge and deepen your learning.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781647088026Publication Date: November 2, 2021
LexisNexis Digital Library
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Mastering Criminal Law
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Mastering Criminal Law explores the basic principles useful in the study of criminal law, offering real world examples to understand these concepts. It provides a clear and concise consideration of the fundamental structure of a crime including statutory interpretation and sentencing. It has chapters on the typical crimes covered in most criminal law casebooks, namely, homicide, rape, assault and battery, and theft. Additionally, it covers accomplice liability, solicitation, attempt and conspiracy. It also covers defenses, including the right to present a defense. It distinguishes different approaches such as the Common Law and Model Penal Code and provides examples of different state statutes.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781611638004Publication Date: May 25, 2016 -
Understanding Criminal Law
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This comprehensive and clearly written Understanding treatise is frequently cited by scholars and courts in their analysis of substantive criminal law, and has been a popular source of assistance to criminal law students for the past quarter century. Understanding Criminal Law is designed to be taught in conjunction with any casebook. The topics covered are those most often raised in criminal law casebooks, and coverage of these subjects is meant to complement professors' classroom discussions. The text focuses on the basic elements of, and defenses to, all crimes; provides in-depth coverage of such crimes as homicide, rape, and theft; and covers other important topics covered in a criminal law course, such as accomplice and inchoate liability. Understanding Criminal Law also covers theories of punishment, sources of the criminal law, and overarching principles such as legality and proportionality. The common law is emphasized with extensive comparisons to the Model Penal Code and modern statutes. This edition offers the most significant updating ever, including coverage of quickly changing legal areas, such as sexual assault and self-defense law. Recent revisions to the Model Penal Code are also covered.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781531021733Publication Date: June 15, 2022 -
Understanding Capital Punishment Law
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The primary emphasis of Understanding Capital Punishment Law is an explanation of the constitutional law that governs death penalty proceedings in the United States. As of 2017, the death penalty remains an option in 31 states and under federal and military law. The cruel and unusual punishment language of the Eighth Amendment has largely defined both the substance and procedures in capital cases. In this book, the parameters of death penalty cases are examined, and established principles as well as unresolved issues are analyzed. In the few years since the third edition, significant changes have occurred in death penalty law, procedure, and practice. The fourth edition presents the most up-to-date information and trends in death penalty law. Students, practitioners, judges, activists, and others interested in the complexities of capital punishment law will benefit from the explanations and commentary this book presents.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781531008574Publication Date: November 16, 2020 -
Understanding International Criminal Law
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This Understanding treatise is divided into four parts: The first part of Understanding International Criminal Law provides a general overview of international criminal law, including the sources of such law, important international criminal law doctrines and concepts, definitions of key terms that appear throughout the book, and various principles of jurisdiction that form the basis for the application of domestic and international law. The second part of the book focuses on a crafted selection of areas of international criminal law. While not exhaustive, the authors have provided explanation and analysis of crimes that cover a wide array of topics that will introduce the reader to many of the most important, timely, and developing areas of international criminal law. The selected topics include developing areas such as computer and internet crimes and human trafficking, and older, more traditional areas such as piracy, narcotics trafficking, and terrorism. The book provides materials on both violent and non-violent crimes. The third part of Understanding International Criminal Law covers procedural issues. This portion of the book considers the extraterritorial application of the U.S. Constitution, including the 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments, immunities from jurisdiction, international evidence gathering procedures, obtaining people from abroad, including through abduction, and post-conviction issues such as prisoner transfer. The final part of this treatise introduces the reader to the four crimes of most concern to the international community--Aggression, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, and War Crimes. The book also examines the various courts and mechanisms used to bring those accused of these atrocities to justice, beginning with the Nuremberg and Tokyo precedents. Examination of these early forms of international tribunal are followed by materials examining more recent courts and mechanisms, including the International Criminal Court, Ad Hoc tribunals, hybrid tribunals and other creative variations. This book provides detailed summaries of areas of significance in international criminal law and is a wonderful resource for students studying in this area, practitioners interested in learning more about the field in general or interested in delving more deeply into a particular issue, and casual readers desiring an introduction to this fascinating and developing area of law.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781531021603Publication Date: September 28, 2022
Aspen Learning Library
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Examples and Explanations for Criminal Law
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Employing the unique, time-tested Examples & Explanations pedagogy, Examples & Explanations: Criminal Law combines textual material with well-written and comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions to test students’ comprehension of the materials and to provide practice in applying information to fact patterns. The questions, which often raise a variety of issues in one fact situation, are similar to those on a law school or bar examination.
New to the Ninth Edition:
Discussion of self-defense and police use of force issues
Discussion of changes in model penal code rape law
Interesting hypothetical situations based on real cases in recent years
Professors and students will benefit from:
Updated materials—utilizes well-known cases that have not made the appellate courts or even gone to litigation to make the material current and easily applicable
Explanations include analysis of both prosecution and defense—this pedagogical approach provides valuable exam-writing skills for students
Readable and accessible—often incorporates popular culture and humor to spark interest in students
Highly recommended as the most popular preparation resource for Criminal Law— including by Atticus Falcon, author of Planet Law School, an orientation guide for students about to begin law school
Straightforward presentation—clear, introductory text enables students to understand and apply principles
Visual aids—tables and charts demonstrate legal standards and concepts
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798889068082Publication Date: July 19, 2024 -
Glannon Guide to Criminal Law, 7th ed.
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In the Seventh Edition of The Glannon Guide to Criminal Law, Laurie L. Levenson presents a comprehensive, thoughtful review of course content that demonstrates how to effectively analyze and answer exam questions, honing students' understanding of concepts and their ability to apply the rules.
Glannon Guides can help students better understand classroom lectures with straightforward explanations of tough concepts interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application.
New to the Seventh Edition:
Recent case law on required mental states, inchoate offenses, "true threats" and the First Amendment defense, self-defense, and insanity
New multiple-choice questions comparing common law and Model Penal Code standards, as well as cases involving police misconduct
Recent case law on felony murder reform
Professors and students will benefit from:
A user-friendly and interactive approach, including text introducing the key cases and concepts that enable a full understanding of subsequent questions and mastery of the material they test
Multiple-choice questions, pitched at a level similar to that of many law school exams, that are integral to a thorough review of Criminal Law topics
Clear analysis of both correct and incorrect answers, which clarifies nuances in the law
Excellent preparation for the Bar exam by one of the nation's leading Bar-exam lecturers in criminal law and procedure
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798889068792Publication Date: December 1, 2023 -
Emanuel CrunchTime for Criminal Law
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When it's exam time you need the right information in the right format to study efficiently and effectively. Emanuel® CrunchTime is the perfect tool for exam studying. With flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers - you will be prepared for your next big test. Here's why you will need Emanuel® CrunchTime to help you ace your exams: Perfect for the visual learner: The flow charts walk you through a series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on the exam. Featured capsule summaries help you quickly review key concepts not just before the exam, but throughout the semester Exams Tips recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543822410Publication Date: July 11, 2022
Hornbooks
Hornbooks below provides an overview of Criminal Law.
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Criminal Law, 7th ed.
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LaFave and Ohlin’s Criminal Law, 7th Edition is designed to function as the ideal Hornbook resource for the student studying Criminal Law. The book includes comprehensive treatment of all doctrines covered in the basic first-year Criminal Law course, regardless of which textbook the instructor uses. The materials are flexible and not keyed to a specific casebook. Doctrines are carefully explained and are thus ideal for out-of-class study to supplement more discussion-oriented casebook materials. Core topics of the Hornbook include:
The underlying goals and purposes of the criminal law, including tensions between crime control and due process.
Principles of statutory interpretation relevant to penal statutes.
The competing rationales for criminal punishment, constitutional constraints related to sentencing, especially as regards to capital punishment and sentencing guidelines, and mental competency to stand trial.
A comprehensive treatment of substantive crimes, not just “core crimes” such as all forms of homicide and sexual assault, but also all substantive offenses tested on the bar exam, including assault, battery, theft, robbery, burglary, kidnapping, and arson, and any other offense that might be included on a Criminal Law syllabus, including disorderly conduct, trespassing, and harassment.
Modes of liability, including not just accomplice and conspiracy liability, but also solicitation and felony murder. The materials explore recent changes to the law in this area, including California’s repeal of the felony murder rule.
Inchoate offenses, including not just attempts, but also solicitation and conspiracy as inchoate substantive offenses.
Doctrinal coverage of every justification and excuse, including self-defense, defensive force by police officers, necessity, duress, and insanity—including the competing doctrines for evaluating insanity arguments, and partial defenses such as diminished capacity.
LaFave and Ohlin’s treatment of the Criminal Law is so comprehensive that students are urged to keep the textbook for bar exam study and for initial practice as a criminal lawyer, since the Hornbook is useful as an easy-to-consult, one-volume, practice-ready reference work.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781685612337Publication Date: June 14, 2023 -
Principles of Criminal Law, 3rd ed.
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Expertly written to provide comprehensive coverage of the most crucial issues in a course, the Concise Hornbook Series features concise analyses by prominent scholars of basic areas of the law. The Series focuses on core principles and concepts fundamental to understanding the subject matter. LaFave's Principles of Criminal Law provides detailed discussion on the topics of responsibility, justification and excuse, inchoate crimes and accomplice liability. The book also gives attention to subjects such as causation, insanity and conspiracy.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781683285359Publication Date: February 17, 2017
Treatise
A treatise below provides an exposition of Criminal Law.
Wharton's on Criminal Law
Please click here for Wharton's on Criminal Law.
LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida Criminal Law
Please click here for a LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida Criminal Law.
CALI Lessons on Criminal Law
The CALI Criminal Law Outline allows you to search for terms of art that correspond to topics you are studying to find suggestions for related CALI Lessons. The CALI Criminal Law Index lists CALI Lessons about Criminal Law.
Outlining Supplements from West Academic Study Aids
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Black Letter Outline on Criminal Law, 5th ed.
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Black Letter Outlines are designed to help a law student recognize and understand the basic principles and issues of law covered in a law school course. Black Letter Outlines can be used both as a study aid when preparing for classes and as a review of the subject matter when studying for an examination. Each Black Letter Outline is written by experienced law school professors who are recognized national authorities in their subject area.
This Outline covers the basic components of all crimes, as well as defenses to crimes. The offenses of criminal homicide, sexual assault, and the theft crimes are covered in detail. The Outline covers common law doctrine, modern statutory trends, and the Model Penal Code.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887863597Publication Date: June 28, 2023 -
Criminal Law, 3rd ed.
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The topics discussed in this criminal law outline are elements of crimes (including actus reus, mens rea, and causation), vicarious liability, complicity in crime, criminal liability of corporations, and defenses (including insanity, diminished capacity, intoxication, ignorance, and self-defense). Also included are inchoate crimes, homicide, other crimes against the person, crimes against habitation (including burglary and arson), crimes against property, offenses against the government, and offenses against the administration of justice.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780314180575Publication Date: December 4, 2007 -
Gilbert Law Summary on Criminal Law, 20th ed.
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The topics discussed in this criminal law outline are elements of crimes (including actus reus, mens rea, and causation), vicarious liability, complicity in crime, criminal liability of corporations, and defenses (including insanity, diminished capacity, intoxication, ignorance, and self-defense). Also included are inchoate crimes, homicide, other crimes against the person, crimes against habitation (including burglary and arson), crimes against property, offenses against the government, and offenses against the administration of justice.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781685613662Publication Date: January 26, 2023
Outlining Supplements from Aspen Learning Library
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Emanuel Law Outlines for Criminal Law, 9th ed.
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Any law school graduate will tell you that when picking your outline tool you need to pick the best because your outlines are the most important study tool you will use throughout your law school career. Developed by legendary study aid author Steve Emanuel, Emanuel® Law Outlines (ELOs) are the #1 outline choice among law students.
An ELO ensures that you understand the concepts as you learn them in class and helps you study for exams throughout the semester. Here's why you need an ELO from your first day of class right through your final exam:
ELOs help you focus on the concepts and issues you need to master to succeed on exams.
They are easy to understand: Each ELO contains comprehensive coverage of the topics, cases, and black letter law found in your specific casebook, but is explained in a way that is understandable.
The Quiz Yourself and Essay Q&A features help you test your knowledge throughout the semester.
Exam Tips alert you to the issues and fact patterns that commonly pop up on exams.
The Capsule Summary provides a quick review of the key concepts covered in the full Outline—perfect for exam review!
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543822427Publication Date: September 20, 2021
Outlining Supplement from Quimbee
Please click here to find criminal law outline materials from Quimbee.
Outlining Supplement on LexisNexis
Please click here for a Criminal Law BarBri Outline on the LexisNexis platform.
Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from West Academic Study Aids
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Exam Pro on Criminal Law (Objective), 2d ed.
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This study aid contains more than 200 multiple-choice questions, some of which focus on specific subject areas, and some of which are mixed together in practice exams covering multiple topics. Together, these questions survey most of the material covered in a typical criminal law course. Each question is accompanied by a detailed and thorough explanation of what is the correct answer to each of these questions, and what is not. These answers can be used to foster a deeper understanding of criminal law and to show students exactly how to apply the rules they learned in class on an actual multiple-choice exam.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781636593098Publication Date: January 10, 2022
Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from LexisNexis Digital Library
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Questions and Answers: Criminal Law, 5th ed.
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Designed for first-year students to understand better what you are learning in the introductory criminal law class and to prepare effectively for the final exam by applying concepts as you learn them. This study guide includes a total of 220 multiple-choice and short-answer questions arranged topically for ease of use during the semester. Twenty of these questions serve as a comprehensive "practice exam" which should be very helpful for the beginning law student especially in preparing for that final exam.
For each multiple-choice question, Professor Marcus provides an answer that indicates which of four options is the best answer and explains thoroughly why that option is better than the other three options. Each short-answer question is designed to be answered in fifteen minutes or less. For these questions, Professor Marcus offers a thoughtful, complete, yet brief, model answer.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781531022976Publication Date: February 16, 2023
Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from Aspen Learning Library
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Strategies & Tactics for the Finz Multistate Method, 6th ed.
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Strategies & Tactics for the FINZ Multistate Method, Sixth Edition, is an indispensable tool for both law school exams and the Multistate Bar Exam. It features more than 1200 multiple-choice questions and detailed answers unavailable elsewhere.
New to the Sixth Edition:
16 new questions in Civil Procedure
19 new questions in Constitutional Law
18 new questions each in Contracts, Criminal Law, Evidence, and Property
17 new questions in Torts
16 new questions in the Practice Exam
Students will benefit from:
More than 1200 multiple-choice questions and answers: Each question contains a sophisticated and intricate fact pattern that tests your ability to pull out the essential facts and tie them to the rules and theories you’ve learned in class. The answers not only explain the reasoning behind the correct choice, but also why the other choices are incorrect.
Coverage of first-year subjects: Questions and detailed answers for each first-year course—Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law (including Criminal Procedure), Property (including Future Interests), and Torts—as well as the upper-year subject of Evidence.
Supplemental questions for your bar review: Every question is written in the Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) style for school exams or MBE preparation and complies with the latest MBE formats. If you’re taking a bar review course, you still need Strategies & Tactics for the Finz Multistate Method because our questions are written in the MBE style and format, but are not actual released exam questions, so we guarantee you’ve never seen these questions before in your MBE review materials.
Special section on how to handle MBE-style questions: The book includes an In-depth guide, “Strategies & Tactics—Playing the MBE Game to Win,” on handling the MBE and MBE-style multiple-choice questions—how to break the question down to the essential facts, how to recognize the legal issues, how to avoid the examiners’ traps and pitfalls, and how to pick the right answer and avoid being misled by the wrong answers.
Complete MBE-style practice exam: The book comes with a complete 200-question practice exam, with detailed answers that explain the reasoning behind the correct choice and why each of the other choices is incorrect.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543858549Publication Date: February 23, 2023 -
Glannon Guide to Criminal Law, 7th ed.
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In the Seventh Edition of The Glannon Guide to Criminal Law, Laurie L. Levenson presents a comprehensive, thoughtful review of course content that demonstrates how to effectively analyze and answer exam questions, honing students' understanding of concepts and their ability to apply the rules.
Glannon Guides can help students better understand classroom lectures with straightforward explanations of tough concepts interspersed with hypotheticals to illustrate application.
New to the Seventh Edition:
Recent case law on required mental states, inchoate offenses, "true threats" and the First Amendment defense, self-defense, and insanity
New multiple-choice questions comparing common law and Model Penal Code standards, as well as cases involving police misconduct
Recent case law on felony murder reform
Professors and students will benefit from:
A user-friendly and interactive approach, including text introducing the key cases and concepts that enable a full understanding of subsequent questions and mastery of the material they test
Multiple-choice questions, pitched at a level similar to that of many law school exams, that are integral to a thorough review of Criminal Law topics
Clear analysis of both correct and incorrect answers, which clarifies nuances in the law
Excellent preparation for the Bar exam by one of the nation's leading Bar-exam lecturers in criminal law and procedure
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798889068792Publication Date: December 1, 2023
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MBE Decoded
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MBE Decoded is a fresh approach to MBE study which makes the vast amount of MBE tested rules manageable and understandable. The authors fully analyzed all NCBE released MBE questions to determine rule coverage and identify common testing patterns so you don’t have to. This book can be used during law school for early bar preparation or during intensive bar preparation by first-time takers and repeat bar takers who struggled on the MBE the first time. This book is a great resource for students to get essential MBE practice before they fully “know” the law, allowing students to get additional essential practice recognizing the fact patterns and testing styles that are key to passing. Pedagogically, this book encourages students to engage with the material, develop deep rule understanding, gain MBE pattern recognition, and aids in critical memorization efforts.
Professors and student will benefit from:
MBE black letter law subject matter outlines that are clear and concise with key terms bolded.
Identification of the most frequently tested MBE rules.
Summary charts to help you understand confusing topics and how they interrelate.
MBE tips to improve accuracy and understanding of how the rules apply to fact patterns.
Decoy tips to help you avoid picking the wrong answer when more than one good option is available.
Examples, pulled from NCBE MBE released questions, which illustrate how the rules are MBE tested.
Bullet point memorization cheat sheets.
Guided MBE question deconstructions illustrating best MBE solving practices.
A guide on how to effectively solve MBE questions with troubleshooting tips to help improve your accuracy.
Guidance on effectively taking an MBE exam online.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543830910Publication Date: April 12, 2021 -
Emanuel CrunchTime for Criminal Law, 6th ed.
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When it’s exam time you need the right information in the right format to study efficiently and effectively. Emanuel® CrunchTime is the perfect tool for exam studying. With flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers – you will be prepared for your next big test.
Here's why you will need Emanuel® CrunchTime to help you ace your exams:
Perfect for the visual learner: The flow charts walk you through a series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on the exam.
Featured capsule summaries help you quickly review key concepts not just before the exam, but throughout the semester
Exams Tips recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543822410Publication Date: April 19, 2022
Multiple-Choice Practice Questions and Answers from Quimbee
Please click here for criminal law multiple-choice practice exam questions and answers.
Essay Questions and Answers from West Academic Study Aids
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Gilbert Law Summary on Criminal Law, 20th ed.
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The topics discussed in this criminal law outline are elements of crimes (including actus reus, mens rea, and causation), vicarious liability, complicity in crime, criminal liability of corporations, and defenses (including insanity, diminished capacity, intoxication, ignorance, and self-defense). Also included are inchoate crimes, homicide, other crimes against the person, crimes against habitation (including burglary and arson), crimes against property, offenses against the government, and offenses against the administration of justice.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781685613662Publication Date: January 26, 2023
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Exam Pro Essay on Criminal Law, 1st. ed.
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This study aid contains more than 100 essay questions, some of which focus on specific subject areas, and some of which examine a number of interwoven topics. Together, these questions survey all of the material covered in a typical criminal law course. Each question is accompanied by a comprehensive model answer that can be used to foster a deeper understanding of criminal law and to show students exactly how to apply the rules they learned in class on an actual exam.
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Acing Criminal Law, 5th ed.
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This study aid features an innovative method of content organization. It uses a checklist format to lead students through questions they need to ask to fully evaluate the legal problem they are trying to solve. It also synthesizes the material in a way that most students are unable to do on their own, and assembles the different issues, presenting a clear guide to procedural analysis that students can draw upon when writing their exams. Other study aids provide sample problems, but none offer the systematic approach to problem solving found in this book.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9798887862828Publication Date: September 20, 2023
Essay Questions and Answers from Aspen Learning Library
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Emanuel CrunchTime for Criminal Law, 6th ed.
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When it’s exam time you need the right information in the right format to study efficiently and effectively. Emanuel® CrunchTime is the perfect tool for exam studying. With flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers – you will be prepared for your next big test.
Here's why you will need Emanuel® CrunchTime to help you ace your exams:
Perfect for the visual learner: The flow charts walk you through a series of yes/no questions that can be used to analyze any question on the exam.
Featured capsule summaries help you quickly review key concepts not just before the exam, but throughout the semester
Exams Tips recap the most commonly tested issues and fact patterns.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543822410Publication Date: April 19, 2022
Essay Questions and Issue Spotting Content from Quimbee
Please click here for criminal law practice essays and related content.
Video Resources
Aspen Learning Library
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Criminal Law: In Other Words (Video Series)
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The videos from the In Other Words series cover fundamental topics in law. Each video is written and presented by a law professor or legal practitioner. In this Criminal Law video, Kelly Strader gives an introduction to Criminal Law.
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Federal Crimes: In Other Words (Video Series)
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The videos from the In Other Words series cover fundamental topics in law. Each video is written and presented by a law professor or legal practitioner. In this Federal Crimes video, Adam Zimmerman gives an introduction to Federal Crimes.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543824032Publication Date: February 6, 2020
West Academic Study Aids
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Office Hours on Criminal Law by Gain the advantages of office hours with professors on your own schedule! The West Academic Office Hours series is a collection of short audio and video tracks that tackle some of the thorniest questions plaguing law students. The professors answer students’ most frequently asked office hour questions. With clear and easy-to-understand explanations, these professors will help you reach that “lightbulb” moment of comprehension, just as they have with their own students in their own offices. You now have virtual faculty explanations available at the click of a button! The Office Hours series features a variety of notable law faculty explaining these tough topics in new and thoughtful ways.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: July 30, 2020
Quimbee
Please click here for a course on criminal law exploring a variety of topics, including but not limited to, the criminal act and the mental element in crime.
Audio Resources
West Academic Study Aids
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Law School Legends Audio on Criminal Law, 1st ed. by This four-hour audio lecture on criminal law is useful for students who are about to take or are currently taking a course in Criminal Law and who want to use it for class review or exam preparation. But it is also useful for anyone, student or not, who would simply like to gain a more informed sense of just what American criminal law is all about. Coverage includes the traditional, foundational doctrines of criminal law like criminal intent and criminal act, discussing these concepts in dealing with crimes like homicide offenses, assault and sexual assault, theft and other property crimes. This lecture also focuses on traditional and modern defenses to criminal charges, like insanity, self defense, and the modern “Stand Your Ground” laws. But just as important as discussion of these crimes and defenses, the lecture also covers some of the most significant structural issues and skills that should be useful to you to figure out how criminal trials work, issues like distinguishing the roles of lawyers, judges, jurors and legislators, and skills like applying criminal statutes to particular cases and analyzing appellate decisions. Some useful tips on studying for and taking Criminal Law exams are included at the end.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: July 20, 2016
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Sum and Substance Audio on Criminal Law, 9th ed. by This audio lecture overviews the sources and nature of criminal law. Examines the theories of punishment, actus reus, mens rea, mistake of fact, and actual and proximate causation. Also addresses all of the major defenses and the concepts of inchoate and accessory liability. The Sum & Substance Audio Series allows you to assimilate the essentials of the course at your convenience - listen while working, commuting, exercising or just relaxing. The information and ideas you struggled with previously are now brought to life simply and succinctly. The audio lecture provides Quick Reference Indexing, allowing you to quickly locate every topic in the entire recording. Also provided are exam tips to maximize your performance and Lifetime guarantee. These audio lectures are time saving, convenient and effective.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: March 4, 2024
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Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law, 1st ed.
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The Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law is an interactive workbook designed to effectively prepare students to pass exams. The most heavily tested legal rules are presented in a format that mirrors the way they arise as issues in typical testing fact patterns. Rule statements are set out in easy-to-memorize statements, with a breakdown of the element components and logical steps to take to apply new facts to each legal element.
Fluency with the legal terminology is also essential to exam success, so this Step-by-Step Guide includes fill-in-the-blank spaces to help you learn and memorize definitions of key terms as they are introduced, and a glossary of selected terms at the end for further reference.
In addition to learning the law and memorizing key rules and terms, success in law school also requires the hard work of deep learning, engaging with problems to test your own knowledge, and working toward gaining a strong command of all testable topics. To that end, this Guide contains short-answer Test Yourself questions. Working through these questions and then reading the answers and explanations to determine where your understanding is clear and where you must do additional work will help you master the skill of applying the relevant rules to new and different fact patterns. In addition to the short-answer questions, this Guide also includes numerous full-length essay questions with sample answers —providing further practice to test your knowledge and deepen your learning.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781647088026Publication Date: November 2, 2021
LexisNexis Digital Library
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Understanding Criminal Law by This comprehensive and clearly written Understanding treatise by Joshua Dressler is frequently cited by scholars and courts in their analysis of substantive criminal law. Understanding Criminal Law is designed to be taught in conjunction with any casebook. The topics covered are those most often raised in criminal law casebooks, and coverage of these subjects is meant to complement professors' classroom discussions. The text focuses on the basic elements of, and defenses to, specific crimes such as homicide, rape, and theft, group criminality, and inchoate liability. Understanding Criminal Law also covers theories of punishment, sources of the criminal law, and overarching principles such as legality and proportionality. The common law is emphasized with extensive comparisons to the Model Penal Code and thoughtful examination of the underpinnings of the utilitarian philosophies of substantive criminal law. The text of Understanding Criminal Law encourages students to consider the approach these philosophies would take to a particular matter under discussion, thus providing an excellent learning tool for gaining a firm understanding of how our criminal justice system works.Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: May 9, 2022
Aspen Learning Library
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Aspen Aloud: Criminal Law, 8th ed.
Aspen Aloud is a series of narrated audio summaries for legal studies in 1L or 2L subject areas: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Corporations and Other Business Entities, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Property, and Torts. Consisting of easy-to-follow, non-casebook-specific chapters broken up into audio files of approximately 10 to 30 minutes each, Aspen Aloud covers the main topics of a subject area to help students understand the concepts they learn in class throughout the semester and to study for exams on the go.
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Criminal Law: In Other Words Audio Series
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The audio files from the In Other Words series cover fundamental topics in law. Each lecture is written and presented by a law professor or legal practitioner. In these Criminal Law lectures, Kelly Strader gives an Introduction to Criminal Law and covers Murder, Conspiracy, Manslaughter, and Murder and Malice. Kent Kasper covers Accomplice Liability, Defenses, Mens Rea Requirements, and Judge vs. Jury. Ray Chao explains Elements of Rape, Strict Liability Crimes, Attempt - Mens Rea, and Elements of a Crime.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543823806Publication Date: February 6, 2020 -
Federal Crimes: In Other Words (Audio Series)
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The audio files from the In Other Words series cover fundamental topics in law. Each lecture is written and presented by a law professor or legal practitioner. In these Federal Crimes lectures, Adam Zimmerman gives an Introduction to Federal Crimes, and covers Conspiracy and Aiding and Abetting, Corruption - Bribery and Gratuities, Criminal Violations of Constitutional Rights, Delegating Criminal Lawmaking, and Drugs and Punishment. Timothy A. Wilson covers Extortion, Interpreting Federal Criminal Statutes, Jurisdiction and Commerce Power, Mail and Wire Fraud, and Sentencing.
Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781543823820Publication Date: February 6, 2020
