Criminal Law: Introduction

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See the online study aids for Criminal Law

Treatises - Scholarly treatment of an area of law; often many volumes and usually updated annually. These titles were originally authored by big names in the field. We even refer to them by the name of the author.

• Available on Westlaw
• Print available
  • Reserve KF9219 .L386 (2017)

Wharton's Criminal Law / Charles E. Torcia

• Available on Westlaw

Search and Seizure

• Search and Seizure / John Wesley Hall
  • Available on Lexis

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) provides online interactive tutorials on legal topics. Your Legal Research professor or law librarian at the reference desk can provide you with Mercer's access code so you can create your own password. 

• CALI Lessons: Criminal Law 
• Accomplice Liability - Actus Reus Requirement 
• Accomplice Liability - Definitional Issues  
• Accomplice Liability - Mens Rea  
• Actus Reus
• Ambiguous Culpability Requirements
• Battered Woman's Syndrome
• Causation
• Concurrence
• Constitutional Limitations: 8th Amendment
• Constitutional Limitations: Legality
• Defense of Others
• Duty to Retreat
• Excuses I: Duress, Entrapment, Mistake
• Excuses II: Insanity and Infancy
• Homicide (Causation)
• Homicide (Causation - Part II)
• Homicide (Defining Death and Life)
• Homicide (Felony Murder)
• Homicide (Involuntary Manslaughter)
• Homicide (Murder by Degrees)
• Homicide (Murder)
• Homicide (Unlawful Act Manslaughter)
• Introduction to Homicide
• Justification Defenses: Excuse Defenses Distinguished
• The Mens Rea of Attempts
• The Mens Rea of Knowledge
• The Mens Rea of Negligence
• The Mens Rea of Purpose
• The Mens Rea of Recklessness
• Minimum Culpability Requirements Under the Model Penal Code
• Mistake as to the Law Defining the Offense
• Mistake Under the Model Penal Code: Mistake as to Defenses
• Mistake Under the Model Penal Code: Mistake as to Elements of Offenses
• Omissions
• Plea & Discovery
• Pre-indictment & Charge
• Presumption of Innocence (Burden of Proof and Presumptions)
• Punishment: Theories
• Self-Defense
• Sources of Criminal Law
• Suspendatur!