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| Author | : Raneta Mack |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 1999-05-30 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0313001286 |
Mack explains criminal law in an easy-to-read format, complete with numerous examples that clarify some of the more difficult concepts. It is designed for anyone interested in exploring the basics of criminal law for personal, academic, or professional reasons. High-profile criminal trials have placed criminal law in the national spotlight. While these trials may contain straightforward factual circumstances, often the legal issues surrounding the criminal charges and defenses are complex and confusing. This book explains the basics of criminal law in an easy-to-understand format designed especially for the nonlawyer who has an interest in criminal law. The book approaches criminal law by discussing basic crimes and their elements to help readers understand the necessary requirements for charging and prosecuting crimes. To aid in understanding many of the concepts, the book includes numerous hypothetical situations that place some of the more difficult concepts in an everyday context, thereby making them more understandable. Criminal law defenses are also explored, in order to give readers an awareness of how and why some of the more popular defenses are presented in the criminal justice system. The book also provides an overview of the criminal trial process, from the arrest to the final verdict. Mack succeeds in demystifying criminal law by presenting it in an understandable format designed for the nonlegal scholar.
| Author | : Raneta Mack |
| Publisher | : Greenwood |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1999-05-30 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0313305560 |
Mack explains criminal law in an easy-to-read format, complete with numerous examples that clarify some of the more difficult concepts. It is designed for anyone interested in exploring the basics of criminal law for personal, academic, or professional reasons. High-profile criminal trials have placed criminal law in the national spotlight. While these trials may contain straightforward factual circumstances, often the legal issues surrounding the criminal charges and defenses are complex and confusing. This book explains the basics of criminal law in an easy-to-understand format designed especially for the nonlawyer who has an interest in criminal law. The book approaches criminal law by discussing basic crimes and their elements to help readers understand the necessary requirements for charging and prosecuting crimes. To aid in understanding many of the concepts, the book includes numerous hypothetical situations that place some of the more difficult concepts in an everyday context, thereby making them more understandable. Criminal law defenses are also explored, in order to give readers an awareness of how and why some of the more popular defenses are presented in the criminal justice system. The book also provides an overview of the criminal trial process, from the arrest to the final verdict. Mack succeeds in demystifying criminal law by presenting it in an understandable format designed for the nonlegal scholar.
| Author | : Robin Sax |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2009-10-06 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1101145080 |
Learning about crime pays Most people watch television shows such as Law and Order and see a simplified version of the world of cops and courtrooms. In fact, the American criminal justice system is one of the most complex legal establishments in the world. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Criminal Justice System de-mystifies the complexity of the judicial establishment and the bureaucracy behind it in a clear, jargon-free and detailed portrait so that any citizen can understand how it works. • Public is highly interested in criminal investigations and trials • Also a useful resource for people planning to enter these fields • Includes detailed glossary of legal terms
| Author | : Muhammad Ibn Bashir |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2011-02-15 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1451617127 |
The first book of legal advice for the hip hop generation, Covering areas ranging from how to secure the best public defender to what to do when driving DWB, this is a step-by-step guide to the criminal system for those who need it most written by a criminal defense attorney who knows this world from the inside out. A counterpoint to the Law and Order justice the public sees and believes in. This is the real criminal justice system, as told from someone inside, someone fights it ever day. This is not a manual for how to get off, how to be a better criminal. It is proof that the system will eat you up and spit you out if you dare to become involved or think you can beat it. Raw Law authoritatively addresses the legal issues faced by the hip hop generation, and offers a simple guide on how to avoid certain situations and how to learn and respond to others. Here readers will learn the truths and untruths of the justice system and how they can protect themselves from the worst of it. But most of all, they will learn how to follow the first rule of the criminal justice system: AVOID IT AT ALL COSTS.
| Author | : James B. Jacobs |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 413 |
| Release | : 2015-02-09 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 067496716X |
For over sixty million Americans, possessing a criminal record overshadows everything else about their public identity. A rap sheet, or even a court appearance or background report that reveals a run-in with the law, can have fateful consequences for a person’s interactions with just about everyone else. The Eternal Criminal Record makes transparent a pervasive system of police databases and identity screening that has become a routine feature of American life. The United States is unique in making criminal information easy to obtain by employers, landlords, neighbors, even cyberstalkers. Its nationally integrated rap-sheet system is second to none as an effective law enforcement tool, but it has also facilitated the transfer of ever more sensitive information into the public domain. While there are good reasons for a person’s criminal past to be public knowledge, records of arrests that fail to result in convictions are of questionable benefit. Simply by placing someone under arrest, a police officer has the power to tag a person with a legal history that effectively incriminates him or her for life. In James Jacobs’s view, law-abiding citizens have a right to know when individuals in their community or workplace represent a potential threat. But convicted persons have rights, too. Jacobs closely examines the problems created by erroneous record keeping, critiques the way the records of individuals who go years without a new conviction are expunged, and proposes strategies for eliminating discrimination based on criminal history, such as certifying the records of those who have demonstrated their rehabilitation.
| Author | : James J. Duane |
| Publisher | : Little a |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
| ISBN | : 9781503933392 |
An urgent, compact manifesto that will teach you how to protect your rights, your freedom, and your future when talking to police. Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reasons why you should never agree to answer questions from the police--especially if you are innocent and wish to stay out of trouble with the law. In this timely, relevant, and pragmatic new book, he expands on that presentation, offering a vigorous defense of every citizen's constitutionally protected right to avoid self-incrimination. Getting a lawyer is not only the best policy, Professor Duane argues, it's also the advice law-enforcement professionals give their own kids. Using actual case histories of innocent men and women exonerated after decades in prison because of information they voluntarily gave to police, Professor Duane demonstrates the critical importance of a constitutional right not well or widely understood by the average American. Reflecting the most recent attitudes of the Supreme Court, Professor Duane argues that it is now even easier for police to use your own words against you. This lively and informative guide explains what everyone needs to know to protect themselves and those they love.
| Author | : Monica Sakhrani |
| Publisher | : Universal Law Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9788175348011 |
| Author | : Jay Feinman |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 377 |
| Release | : 2014-08-01 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199341702 |
In each of the first three editions of the bestselling Law 101, Jay Feinman gave readers an upbeat and vivid examination of the American legal system. Since the third edition was published in 2010, much has happened: several key Supreme Court cases have been decided, we've seen sensational criminal trials, and the legal system has had to account for the latest developments in Internet law. This fully updated fourth edition of Law 101 accounts for all this and more, as Feinman once again provides a clear introduction to American law. The book covers all the main subjects taught in the first year of law school, and discusses every facet of the American legal tradition, including constitutional law, the litigation process, and criminal, property, and contracts law. To accomplish this, Feinman brings in the most noteworthy, infamous, and often outrageous examples and cases. We learn about the case involving scalding coffee that cost McDonald's half a million dollars, the murder trial in Victorian London that gave us the legal definition of insanity, and the epochal decision of Marbury vs. Madison that gave the Supreme Court the power to declare state and federal law unconstitutional. A key to learning about the law is learning legal vocabulary, and Feinman helps by clarifying terms like "due process" and "equal protection," as well as by drawing distinctions between terms like "murder" and "manslaughter." Above all, though, is that Feinman reveals to readers of all kinds that despite its complexities and quirks, the law is can be understood by everyone. Perfect for students contemplating law school, journalists covering legislature, or even casual fans of "court-television" shows, Law 101 is a clear and accessible introduction to the American legal system. New to this edition: Featured analysis of: -the Obamacare case -Citizens United -the DOMA decision -the Trayvon Martin case As well as recent legal developments pertaining to: -online contracting -mortgages -police investigations -criminal sentencing
| Author | : Dr. Michael Dassama |
| Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 74 |
| Release | : 2020-01-22 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1984593404 |
The aim of this text is to overcome those shortcomings and pitfalls so that students will have a better understanding how to maximise their time in exams condition by applying requisite skills and knowledge provided in this book project. It should be noted that those student, who uses time and material facts objectively tend to do well than those who, randomly rumbled in exams condition. Precision and much clarity in answering questions, could be a bench-mark in examination success as it encourages examiners to concentrate on the trends of arguments that is expostulated in answering respective questions than those who may be in the bad habit of, using elaborately and undulating expressions that could be a bit verbose and highly distasteful in the eyes of examiners. In this regard, it is my desire to making necessary inputs which may serve as springboard in this book project, capable of motivating and at the same time, providing guidelines to answering questions under examination tension by, presenting synopsis in most case law for qualitative precision. For this purpose, it is intended to divide the book into two parts of which part one will be looking at probability testing, analysis and subjectivity while, part two will be more concretized in putting the various arguments into comprehensive readable format backed-up by various contesting and appreciable case law. Both past and current cases will be enshrined into legal argument in order to, present a well balanced and appreciable juridical outcome.
| Author | : Tom Hicks |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2013-12-10 |
| Genre | : Water |
| ISBN | : 9781619480094 |
The 28-page Layperson's Guide to Water Rights Law, recognized as the most thorough explanation of California water rights law available to non-lawyers, traces the authority for water flowing in a stream or reservoir, from a faucet or into an irrigation ditch through the complex web of California water rights. It includes historical information on the development of water rights law, sections on surface water rights and groundwater rights, a description of the different agencies involve in water rights, and a section on the issues not only shaped by water rights decisions but that are also driving changes in water rights. Includes chronology of landmark cases and legislation and an extensive glossary.
