The Legal Rights of the Convicted - Softcover

Barbara Belbot; Craig Hemmens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593324243 ISBN 13: 9781593324247

Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2010

Synopsis

The Legal Rights of the Convicted is a comprehensive examination of the legal rights of convicted offenders, including offenders who are incarcerated, on probation, or paroled. While it highlights significant U.S. Supreme Court decisions, it also discusses interesting and significant lower court cases involving prisoners rights. Belbot and Hemmens do more than present court cases and legal doctrines. They provide both the historical and political context in which the decisions were rendered. They demonstrate the evolution of the prisoners rights movement in the U.S. and its relationship to the civil rights movement and how recent political developments have shaped the way courts analyze the issues and how the U.S. Congress has responded. The text is especially good at helping students appreciate the prison environment and how the legal issues that prisoners raise are impacted by that unique setting. The text introduces students to the place where law intersects with corrections and has cross appeal to students of corrections, law, and the sociology of law.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Belbot is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Houston-Downtown. She holds a J.D. from the University of Houston School Center and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. Dr. Belbot has published numerous articles on criminal-justice related topics. Craig Hemmens is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Boise State University. He holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. Professor Hemmens has published seventeen book and more than one hundred articles on a variety of criminal-justice related topics.

Review:

The Legal Rights of the Convicted is a comprehensive examination of the legal rights of convicted offenders. Belbot and Hemmens do more than simply discuss court cases and legal doctrines. They provide both the historical and political context in which the decisions were rendered. The text is especially good at helping students appreciate the prison environment and how the legal issues that prisoners raise are impacted by that unique setting. The text introduces students to the place where law intersects with corrections and has cross appeal to students of corrections, law, and the sociology of law. This textbook incorporates a number of distinctive and innovative features, including a focus on current issues in corrections law, a discussion of recent scholarship/research on current corrections law, a discussion of the historical antecedents of constitutional corrections law, and a full discussion of the legal issues associated with community corrections, the fastest growing area in corrections law and practice. I recommend it highly and without any reservations --Joan Petersilia, Stanford Law

Ideal for undergraduate classes and courses. --Rolando V. del Carmen, Sam Houston State University

An important and much needed book on Corrections Law. Everyone involved in the correctional system should have a copy --Edward Latessa, University of Cincinnati

Ideal for undergraduate classes and courses. --Rolando V. del Carmen, Sam Houston State University

An important and much needed book on Corrections Law. Everyone involved in the correctional system should have a copy --Edward Latessa, University of Cincinnati

Ideal for undergraduate classes and courses. --Rolando V. del Carmen, Sam Houston State University

An important and much needed book on Corrections Law. Everyone involved in the correctional system should have a copy --Edward Latessa, University of Cincinnati

Belbot and Hemmens cover a tremendous amount of material in a concise fashion, but do so in a generally clear and easily readable manner. This is no small achievement. --Law & Politics Book Review

An important and much needed book on Corrections Law. Everyone involved in the correctional system should have a copy --Edward Latessa, University of Cincinnati

About this edition

• Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1593324243
• ISBN 13: 9781593324247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 270