Criminal Law Black Letter [With Capsule Summary]

by Peter W. Low

Book Overview

Definition of Crime; Derivative Defenses; Collateral Defenses: Justifications; Collateral Defenses: Excuses; Parties; Inchoate Crimes; Criminal Homicide. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0314734945
• ISBN13: 9780314734945
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: West Publishing Company
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

The premier commercial outline for Bonnie, Coughlin, Jeffries, and Low

This outline was written by Peter Low, the most recent editor of the Criminal Law, 2nd Ed. casebook by Bonnie, Coughlin, Jeffries Jr., and Low. It tracks the most closely with the casebook's topics and teaching approach of any of the major commercial outlines. (I personally found Emmanuel's the worst; it was followed by Gilbert's, which was passable, and finally E & E, whose broad, non-outline approach actually explained the topics relatively well.) If you're a 1L, you've realized by now that you don't take Crim in the same way that you might have taken Physics or Linear Algebra: you take Crim -with- So-and-So. In the same way, you should be reading a commercial outline by the same author as your casebook. If you're taking Crim and using the Bonnie text, I highly recommend Low's Black Letter Outline. Good luck.

A Valuable Resource

This textbook is a testament to the fact that Richard Bonnie is truly one of the giants in the field of criminal law. Everything this man writes is valuable; the chapters on mental health and insanity alone make purchasing this book worthwhile (Bonnie is an expert on the insanity defense). This book definitely leant itself to rich and provocative classroom discussions. I enjoyed the book almost as much as I enjoyed his class. I would recommend this text to any professor who is interested in spicing up his or her criminal law classes.