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Buy a new version of this textbook and receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center 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. Criminal Law: Cases and Materials has long been respected for its distinguished authorship. The late John Kaplan''s extraordinary work continues with the scholarship of Robert Weisberg, Guyora Binder, and now in this Tenth Edition of criminal law and feminist scholar Aya Gruber. This casebook''s renowned interdisciplinary approach fuels class discussion as it enriches study. Logically organized, the text addresses the purposes and limits of punishment and considers the meaning and types of crime. Well-edited cases, interesting materials, and clear notes combine with cutting-edge issues and important social questions, such as whom and why we punish. Especially strong are the sections addressing the phenomenon of mass incarceration (including the movement towards prison abolition), the theme of and challenges to racial justice in our criminal law system, and the evolution of our laws on sexual assault. New to the 10th Edition: * On the voluntary act requirement, full treatment of the dramatic new Grant''s Pass v. Johnson case addressing the constitutionality of laws, imposing criminal liability on homeless encampments, and the new limited reading of the Eighth Amendment under Robinson, v. California. * On the Guilty Mind, the new Supreme Court case of Counterman v. Colorado, which is the constitutional law complement to Elonis v. United States on the mens rea theme for threats; also, some historically important new state law cases on strict liability * Notes on t