This valuable book provides a concise, yet thorough analysis of a confusing statute and morass of case law. Extremely well organized and indexed, the guide allows you to locate promptly and easily issues pertinent to your case.

This is a reprint of a book first published by Little, Brown in 1978. George Fletcher is working on a new edition which will be published by OUP in three volumes, the first of which is scheduled to appear in January 2001. Rethinking Criminal Law is still perhaps the most influential and often cited theoretical work on American criminal law. This reprint will keep this classic work available until the new edition can be published.