Main Content
Content from the following sources has been used in the creation of this casebook:
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Ball/Oberman Current Challenges in Criminal Law
(First published Aug 2020)Authors:
Including material from the following sections:
- 1: Mass incarceration: How did we get here? How is it serving us?
- 2: Actus Reus: Addiction/Drug Policy
- 3: Actus Reus: Good Samaritan
- 4: Mens Rea and your Mental State: Thoughts on Law School Success
- 5: Homicide and mental illness
- 6: Intimate Partner Violence
- 7: Gangs, Drugs, Conspiracy Law and Mass Incarceration
- 8: Sexual Assault
- 9: Police and the Law of Self-Defense
- 10: The Insanity Defense and its Limitations
- 11: Plea-Bargaining
- 12: What is Public Safety?
- 13: Are Police Effective?
- 14: Poverty and Crime, Wealth Extraction
- 15: Racial Disparities
- 16: Restorative Justice
- 17: Dialogue in the classroom
- 18: Other Resources/Lists/Clearinghouses
- 19: The Transformative Power of Restorative Justice (podcast interview, 75 min)
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