The nature of criminal law and its analytic structure -- The legality principle -- Theories of punishment -- Culpability requirements -- Culpability and mistake -- Homicide : doctrines of aggravation -- Death penalty -- Homicide : doctrines of mitigation -- Causation -- Attempt liability -- Impossibility -- Conspiracy -- Voluntary intoxication -- Complicity -- The act requirement and liability for an omission -- Corporate criminality -- Lesser evils defense -- Public authority justifications -- Defensive force justifications -- Mistake as to a justification -- Mistake excuses -- Insanity -- Disability excuses -- Nonexculpatory defenses -- Entrapment -- Rape -- Hate crimes.