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Edition : 5th ed., 2025
Author(s) : Hoffmann, Stuntz

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Defining Crimes, Fifth Edition, by the distinguished author team of Joseph L. Hoffmann (Indiana) and William J. Stuntz (late of Harvard), breaks from the tradition of Model Penal Code-centric casebooks and focuses instead on the rich intellectual and theoretical issues that arise from how crimes actually get defined and applied today by state and federal legislatures, trial and appellate courts, police, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and juries. The innovative approach of Defining Crimes enables the in-depth study of the problems and issues that affect the day-to-day contemporary practice of criminal law.

New to the Fifth Edition:

New principal cases: City of Grants Pass v. Johnson; Ruan v. U.S.
More tightly-edited cases
New “roadmap” introductions to each set of Notes and Questions, providing guidance to both students and faculty
Updated California Penal Code §261 (Rape) and §261.6 (Consent)
New and updated notes:
- Model Penal Code’s influence
- Elonis and the future of federal mens rea
- The federal law of robbery
- “Money or property” fraud (Ciminelli v. U.S.)
- “Honest services” fraud (Percoco v. U.S.)
- Drug possession and “guilty knowledge” (State v. Cleppe)
- Mens rea for drug possession (Diaz v. U.S.)
- Acquaintance rape (People v. Weinstein)
- Modern rape statutes (Indiana Code § 35-42-4-1)
- Relationship between causation and mens rea (Michigan v. Crumbley)
- Presidential immunity (Trump v. U.S.)
- Entrapment by estoppel (People v. Chacon)
- Privacy and substantive criminal law (Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization)
- Constitutional status of moral culpability (Kahler v. Kansas)

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