Criminal Law: An Integrated Approach

This is an Interactive Casebook

The online Lawbooks version offers embedded interactive questions to help students understand and apply the material as they learn it. Use the links below to access the available editions.

• Second Edition (2024)
• First Edition (2022) (will be available through the Fall 2024 semester) 

This casebook is also available as a PDF and in print. The PDF version includes direct links to the interactive questions on the Lawbooks website. 

Description

This is the Second Edition of Criminal Law: An Integrated Approach, a new textbook designed for a first-year law school course in criminal law. Its aim is to present an accurate overview of American criminal law as it operates in the twenty-first century, with attention to racial disparities and other inequalities and to the features of criminal law that produce these inequalities. The book covers basic principles of criminal liability and introduces students to standard definitions of property crimes, crimes against the person, and drug and gun offenses. Its approach is integrated in that students learn these areas of “substantive” law in context with the official decision-making that is crucial to the operation of criminal law in practice: criminalization, enforcement, and adjudication decisions. By examining the ways in which written texts, such as statutes or judicial opinions, do and do not constrain official decisions, the book offers an opportunity to understand how mass incarceration and patterns of racial disparity have arisen and been sustained.

484 pages in PDF

Second Edition Published August 2024

Teacher's Manual

A Teacher's Manual is available for faculty (updated October 2023); please use your CALI credentials to log in for access.