CL Chap. 1-2

"conduct that unjustifiably and inexcusably inflicts or threatens substantial harm to individual or public interests"

• Model
• Penal
• Code

• Coduct that
• unjustifiably and inexcusably
• Inflicts or threatens substantal harm
• To individual or public interest

"Who's criminally responsible for what crime"

Private wrongs for which you can sue the party that wronged you and recover money

• Torts
• Crimes

Yes, it is tried as a murder and later civil

ex. O.J Simpson

What the gover. entity calls itself

The defendant's

Condemnation and hard treatment

(1970) made clear the need for punishment to make condemnation meaningful.

(Two Army rapist; the Judge was leniant)

It consist of criminal behavior that needs no law to tell us it's criminal because it's inherently wrong or evil, like murder or rape.

Are crimes punishable by death or confinement in the state's prison for one year to life w/o parole.

Are punishable by fine and/or confinement in the local jail for up to a year.

Felony def. have to be in court and misdemeanor defendants don't.

• A general part
• A special part

Consist of principles that apply to more than one crime

Defines specific crimes and arranges them into groups according to subject matter

• Complicity
• Principles of justfication

• Crimes against person
• Crimes against property
• Crimes against public oder and morals
• Crimes against the state