An Introduction to the Model Penal Code

Markus D. Dubber (B.A. Harvard, J.D. Stanford) is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, and formerly a Professor of Law and Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center, SUNY Buffalo School of Law. Dubber is a leading expert on criminal law who has published fifteen books and over seventy articles on all aspects of criminal law; his publications include, among others, American Criminal Law: Cases, Statutes, and Comments (with Mark Kelman), New York Criminal Law: Cases and Materials, and Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights, as well as The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law (with Tatjana Hörnle, Oxford, 2014), and Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (Oxford, 2014).

Preface ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1 A Key to the Model Penal Code and to American Criminal Law ; 2 Origins: The ALI, Legal Process, and Treatmentism ; 2.1 Criminal Propensities ; 2.2 The Model Penal and Correctional Code ; 2.3 The Structure of the Model Penal Code ; 3 The Model Penal Code in a Nutshell: Section 1.02 ; 3.1 The Prerequisites of Criminal Liability: Of Crimes and Criminals ; 3.2 The Analysis of Criminal Liability: Three Levels of Inquiry ; Chapter 1: Criminal Conduct ; 4 "Conduct" ; 4.1 Actus Reus ; (A) Act ; (B) Voluntariness ; (C) Omission ; (D) Possession ; 4.2 Mens Rea and Offense Elements ; (A) Element Types ; (B) The Mens Rea Requirement ; (C) Rules of Interpretation ; (D) Modes of Culpability ; (E) Matching Conduct to Offense ; 4.3 Intoxication and Mistake ; (A) Intoxication ; (B) Mistake ; 4.4 Liability for Another's Conduct ; (A) Instruments ; (B) Complicity ; (C) Corporations ; 5 "That Inflicts or Threatens" ; 5.1 Causation ; 5.2 Inchoate Offenses ; (A) Attempt ; (B) Conspiracy ; (C) Solicitation ; (D) Renunciation ; 6 "Substantial Harm to Individual or Public Interests" ; 6.1 Substantial Harm ; 6.2 Individual or Public Interests ; Chapter 2: Justification ; 7 Defenses in General ; 8 Necessity ; 9 Defense of Persons (Self and Others) and of Property ; 9.1 Self-Defense ; (A) Use of Force Upon or Toward Another Person ; (B) Belief ; (C) Necessity ; (D) Unlawfulness ; (E) Immediacy and Protection ; (F) Self- and Other-Defense ; 9.2 Defense of Property ; 9.3 Deadly Force ; 10 Law Enforcement ; 11 Consent ; Chapter 3: Excuse ; 12 Excuses in the Model Penal Code ; 13 Duress ; 14 Entrapment ; 15 Ignorance of Law ; 16 Provocation and Diminished Capacity ; 17 Insanity and Infancy ; Conclusion ; 18 Analysis of Criminal Liability ; Table of Cases ; Table of Model Penal Code Sections and Statutes ; Index