Criminal Law

Written by a lawyer/criminologist with teaching experience in both criminology and law, Criminal Law, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date criminal law text available, covering all traditional areas of law and illustrating them with recent current events. This fifth edition includes coverage of the newest topics, such as three strikes you’re out, hate crimes, home invasion, posttraumatic stress disorders as defenses and truth in sentencing. Traditional topics, such as murder, are updated with recent changes such as those regarding definition of death, and inclusion of a fetus as a “person.” Unlike most criminal law texts, this text covers misdemeanors as well as felonies.