Criminal Procedure: Theory and Practice - Hardcover

Ingram, Jefferson

9780130987600: Criminal Procedure: Theory and Practice

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0130987603 ISBN 13: 9780130987600

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 2004

This comprehensive book balances straightforward text and presentations of numerous historical and contemporary cases to provide learners with a thorough and interesting introduction to criminal procedure. The numerous edited cases help bring criminal procedure to life, and the comments, notes and questions that follow each case help readers bring key legal issues into focus. These cases vividly illustrate the concepts and theories presented in each chapter. Historical landmark cases are presented along with more contemporary modifying cases in order to clarify the legal principles of the landmark case and provide contemporary understanding of criminal procedure law. Chapter coverage includes detailed information on search warrants, arrest and seizure, Fourth Amendments searches, Miranda principles, eyewitness identification procedures, plea bargaining and guilty pleas, the trial, and much more. For professionals and anyone interested in the fields of criminal justice, criminology, and criminal law.

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From the Back Cover:

Criminal Procedure: Theory and Practice offers an extensive presentation of the state of the law. The cases presented provide the proper historical context in order to understand the philosophy behind the law. The facts of every case have been rewritten, presenting each student with a concise understanding of the specifics relating to each criminal procedure point covered. Following each case, the book presents additional materials that may challenge the student to apply the newly-learned principles to a novel fact pattern and presents many excerpted cases suitable for class interaction and discussion.

The text offers an opportunity for the student to develop an enhanced understanding of criminal procedure through a practical and logical presentation. When appropriate, the text interrelates proper lessons of history that influenced the development of criminal procedure. Coverage of developing legal theories like the Miranda principles provide an understanding of how these case laws developed and how these principles may evolve.

Students and instructors can remain on the cutting edge of criminal procedure by going to www.criminalprocedurebyingram.com. This site, updated monthly, will provide information on newly decided cases on criminal procedure as well as updated case presentations. This website will serve as a current, up to the moment supplement through the life of this edition.

About the Author:

Jefferson Ingram began his academic career by teaching Constitutional History for the Department of History at the University of Dayton in the Spring of 1978 and entered a full-time tenure track position in the Criminal Justice Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Dayton in the Fall of 1978. He continued to teach in the Department of History for two more semesters and offered courses in Criminal Procedure, The Law of Evidence, and Criminal Law until the late 1990's for the Criminal Justice Program. During this time, he team taught a death penalty course, The Death Penalty, with a philosophy professor and offered a philosophy-criminal justice course jointly with a philosophy professor on The Moral Basis for Civil and Criminal Law. In 1990, he taught a course for the School of Business Administration, Law for the Accounting Profession. In 1994, the Criminal Justice Program became the Criminal Justice Studies Program and the course on evidence was phased out with new duties added in the form of teaching a senior seminar course for all graduating Criminal Justice students. In the Summer of 2003, Jefferson Ingram joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Dayton as a tenured faculty member, where he continues to teach and support students in the Criminal Justice Studies Program as needed.

During the twenty-nine years of teaching, Jefferson Ingram has published books on criminal procedure, Cases and Materials on Criminal Procedure , Copyright 1986, Anderson Publishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Criminal Procedure: Cases and Materials , Copyright 1995, Anderson Publishing Co., Cincinnati, Ohio, along with ancillary teaching manuals. A third book on criminal procedure, Criminal Procedure, Theory and Practice, Copyright 2005, Pearson Education, Inc. In the area of the law of evidence, Criminal Evidence , 8th edition by John Klotter and Jefferson Ingram with Anderson Publishing and Criminal Evidence , 9th edition by Jefferson Ingram with Mathew Bender Company are recent publications.

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