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2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Hill Book

CRM 305 - Substantive Criminal Law

3 Credits
Offered Fall and Spring
This course provides an overview of basic legal concepts pertaining to criminal law, including violent, property, theft, and inchoate offenses. Students will examine the principles of criminal liability through three sources of criminal law: the Common Law, the Model Penal Code, and any modern statutory distinctions Analysis of affirmative defenses and the concept of reasonable doubt as a defense are explored.

Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): CRM 120 - Critical Introduction to Criminal Justice  or CRM 201 - Criminological Theories