Essential Criminal Law
Second Edition
Learning Objectives
- Know the elements of the crime of stalking.
- Know the definition of rape under the common law and the strict requirements for rape under the common law.
- List some of the changes in the law of rape resulting from rape reform in the 1970s and 1980s.
- Compare and contrast the extrinsic and intrinsic tests for the actus reus of rape/sexual assault.
- Know the difference between fraud in the factum and fraud in inducement.
- Understand the standard for the mens rea of rape/sexual battery.
- Summarize the law of statutory rape.
- State the law on rape/sexual battery and the withdrawal of consent.
- Understand rape shield statutes.
- Know the role of testimony on rape trauma testimony at trial.
- Describe the intent and act requirement for kidnapping.
- Distinguish between kidnapping and false imprisonment.