NCJ Number
70396
Date Published
1968
Length
101 pages
Annotation
This workbook was devised to help policemen on the Virgin Islands learn the laws that they must enforce.
Abstract
It is designed to be used in a course together with the textbook, Cases and Comments on Criminal Justice, Volume I, Criminal Law, by Inbau, Thompson, and Sowle. Police officers are instructed in the elements of criminal law, definitions and general penalties, laws of arrest, search and seizure, and the rights and duties of officers and citizens. The course follows the general outline of the text: outline of criminal procedure, the legal concepts of criminality, sources of the criminal law, constitutional limitations on the power of the State to create and define criminal offenses, homicide, sex offenses and related problems, misappropriation and related offenses, criminal responsibility and the defense of mental impairment, and uncompleted criminal conduct and criminal combinations. The workbook is comprised of three chapters. The first explains the history and development of the criminal law system. The second chapter explains the organization of the course. And the third provides topical headings for students' notes. An appendix contains some specific sections of the Virgin Islands Code. A bibliography (5 references) and a suggested reading list are included.