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With this purchase, you will receive access to the Connected eBook on Casebook Connect, including lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities. Access also includes practice questions, an outline tool, and other helpful resources. Connected eBooks provide what you need most to be successful in your law school classes. <br/><br><br> <br/>Jens Ohlin’s Criminal Lawis designed to respond to the changing nature of law teaching by offering a shorter, flexible, and more doctrinal approach, with an emphasis on application. Materials are presented, in a visually lively style, via a consistently structured pedagogy within each chapter: Doctrine (treatise-like explanation), Application (cases), and Practice/Policy (questions providing an opportunity for normative critique of the law and exploration of practical and strategic challenges facing criminal lawyers).  Theory is integrated into the doctrine section rather than conveyed through law review excerpts, so as to help students make the necessary connections to doctrinal issues. Aggressively-edited cases help keep the length to a minimum, and modern cases will engage younger students and professors.   <br/><br><br> <br/><b>New to the Third Edition: </b> <br/><ul> <br/><li> <br/>New materials on mass incarceration, the “defund the police” movement, and prison abolition </li> <br/><li> <br/>Revised chapter on Felony Murder, taking into account recent doctrinal developments, including California’s repeal of the doctrine </li> <br/><li> <br/>Revised chapter on Provocation New Problem Case dealing with “Swatting” </li> <br/><li> <br/>New chapter on Offenses Against the Administration of Justice, covering obstruction of justice, perjury, bribery, corruption, and contempt of court  </li> <br/></ul> <br/><b>Professors and students will benefit from: </b> <br/><ul> <br/><li>Structure and content which line up with how professors actually teach the course, as opposed to how the course was