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Basic Criminal Law, Third Edition offers a comprehensive, well-organized approach to understanding key legal concepts and to developing the real-world skills students will as paralegals or in other criminal justice roles. Thoroughly updated for the latest trends, it guides students through the history of criminal law, the crimes themselves, and specific legal procedures. To promote interest, it presents crimes first and then procedures, and highlights current events and case law throughout. This edition’s new features include: completely revamped end-of-chapter material, including a comprehensive Building Your Professional Skills section; a new chapter on sex crimes; more coverage of evidence, technology, and appeals; more charts and diagrams; new state-specific examples, and updated case studies throughout.
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Basic Criminal Law: The Constitution, Procedure, and Crimes, Second Edition
Designed for undergraduate legal studies programs this edition of Basic Criminal Law: The Constitution, Procedure, and Crimes provides students with an up-to-date look at the American criminal justice system–both the law and legal procedures. This new edition also provides examples of where the system fails to live up to its ideals and the lessons learned from these mistakes. Ultimately, this book seeks to show a criminal justice system run by human beings with all the idealism and folly that it entails.
NEW TO THIS EDITION
· New organization builds a sound theoretical base before applying legal procedures
· Many up-to-date integrative cases throughout the text show the best and the worst of the American criminal justice system
· Real court documents included in the case examples will familiarize students with documents they will use in the real world
· Historical Highlight boxes show the historical basis for the Anglo-American legal concepts and their current applications
· You Make the Call scenarios allow students to use their critical thinking abilities to resolve real-life challenges
· Key terms now appear in the margins and are also provided in a glossary at the end of the book for easy reference
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- PublisherPearson College Div
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0135109469
- ISBN 13 9780135109465
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number3
- Number of pages430
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