5046
Course Credits:
3
Course Type:
Lecture
Course Priority:
General Enrollment Course
Course Category:
First-Year Courses - Enrollment is limited to first-year students
Full Year Course:
No
Course Description
Traditional and contemporary doctrines of substantive criminal law are analyzed, with focus on such issues as: theories of punishment, the formal elements of criminal culpability, the theory and degrees of homicide, criminal causation, inchoate crimes, accessorial and vicarious liability, conspiracy, and defenses of excuse and justification.