[PDF] Pocket Guide To United States Criminal Laws eBook

Author : Walter P. Signorelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 1000959236

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Providing a complete view of U.S. legal principles, this book addresses distinct issues as well as the overlays and connections between them. It presents as a cohesive whole the interrelationships between constitutional principles, statutory criminal laws, procedural law, and common-law evidentiary doctrines. This fully revised and updated new edition also includes discussion questions and hypothetical scenarios to check learning. Constitutional principles are the foundation upon which substantive criminal law, criminal procedure law, and evidence laws rely. The concepts of due process, legality, specificity, notice, equality, and fairness are intrinsic to these three disciplines, and a firm understanding of their implications is necessary for a thorough comprehension of the topic. This book examines the tensions produced by balancing the ideals of individual liberty embodied in the Constitution against society’s need to enforce criminal laws as a means of achieving social control, order, and safety. Relying on his first-hand experience as a law enforcement official and criminal defense attorney, the author presents issues that highlight the difficulties in applying constitutional principles to specific criminal justice situations. Each chapter of the text contains a realistic problem in the form of a fact pattern that focuses on one or more classic criminal justice issues to which readers can relate. These problems are presented from the points of view of citizens caught up in a police investigation and of police officers attempting to enforce the law within the framework of constitutional protections. This book is ideal for courses in criminal law and procedure that seek to focus on the philosophical underpinnings of the system.

Author : Frank LaGard Smith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 2009-12-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781933408088

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The Criminal Law Color Book: Contains; Mind-sticking illustrations, step-by-step progression, course review, exam approaches, feedback and exam questions, model answers. New printing, by F. LaGard Smith

Author : Kevin C. McMunigal
Publisher : Ingram
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : 9781531004019

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Criminal Law: Problems, Statutes, and Cases combines effective, innovative teaching methods, such as the use of problems and visual materials, with cases, including recent opinions on bias intimidation, possession of child pornography, threatening speech on social media, and theft of computer code. Key features include: A problem methodology. The book incorporates problem methodology with extensive use of problems, many based on recent cases. A statutory approach. A primary goal of the book is teaching skills in interpreting and, to a lesser degree, writing statutes. Visual materials. Visual materials include: (1) diagrammed crimes; (2) graphic exercises, such as having students create a timeline to compare and contrast various tests for the conduct element in attempt; and (3) video clip recommendations from a wide range of movies and TV shows such as The Wire and Breaking Bad.

Author : Pocket Press
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2022
Category :
ISBN : 9781884493874

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A concise, pocket-sized book of the most frequently enforced statutes of criminal laws for Michigan.

Author : Stephen Odgers
Publisher :
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 19,41 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 9780455228648

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This is a comprehensive examination of the general principles of federal criminal law. The book provides commentary on specific terms and phrases as well as examples of how each principle may be applied.