An Introduction to the Model Penal Code

In this second edition of his well-received introductory overview of the Model Penal Code, Markus Dubber retains the book's original aim to serve as an accessible companion to the Code. Professor Dubber unlocks the Model Penal Code's potential as a key to the study of American criminal law for law students and teachers, and for anyone else with an interest in understanding the basic contours of American criminal law.

While the book's general goal and basic approach remain unchanged, its content has been thoroughly revised. Citations to primary and secondary materials have been updated and supplemented where appropriate. The American Law Institute's ongoing revision of the Code's sentencing and sexual offense provisions has been taken into account. Also, the comparative analysis found sporadically throughout the original edition has been expanded in places to provide additional context.

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 asThe Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law (with Tatjana Hornle, Oxford, 2014), andFoundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law (Oxford, 2014).