Product Description: This title analyzes the law governing all major steps in the criminal justice process, beginning with investigation and ending with post-appeal collateral attacks. All major themes are covered, with emphasis upon those basic issues deemed most significant in the case law and literature...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive outline of criminal procedure provides extensive discussion on the Fourth Amendment, exclusionary rules, and significant cases such as Miranda and their effect on constitutional interpretation. Addresses exceptions to the general Fourth Amendment requirements of probable cause and warrant, eavesdropping, and the use of secret agents...read more

Product Description: This unique coursebook attempts to recreate for law students the experience that lawyers have when analyzing the procedural issues involved in the investigatory phase of a criminal case. This approach not only enhances learning but also makes learning enjoyable since students get to play lawyer...read more

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Product Description: Americans are enamored with the criminal courts. This fascination is most likely the direct consequence of exciting and highly publicized criminal trials. However, despite the public's interest, most scholarly books published on criminal courts give only cursory attention to the most important and controversial issues facing America's criminal court system...read more

Product Description: When the authors created the first edition of <b>Comprehensive Criminal Procedure</b>, they tied it to contemporary thinking in the field and made it reflect the realities of the course as it is actually taught, covering both investigative and adjudicative topics...read more

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The Scheb and Scheb author team bring a combined experience that is both practical and academic. The text covers all of the essential content in a manageable fashion and integrates the material logically. Utilizing extensive case material, this book covers the historical background of criminal procedure and has been thoroughly updated to include the latest Supreme Court decisions and other developments in criminal justice today. The text features a classic organization, and traditional presentation of case law, coupled with coverage of recent trends in law and procedure, and ample student pedagogy. The authors' combined legal and practical experience provides students with first-hand insights into the American legal system. This is one of two "splits" of the combined CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE, 5th Edition text (© 2005) by the same authors. This unique text offers an economical alternative in terms of length and price.

This best-selling text provides students with all they need to know about the legal aspects of the criminal justice system as it applies to professionals within the system. Ferdico communicates potentially confusing and obscure legal matter clearly and practically. By emphasizing interpretation of legal cases, students are able to focus on understanding the content of cases versus simply memorizing them.

Covering the basics of the criminal justice system with more depth and breadth than other brief paperback texts, this best-seller provides students with thorough, objective coverage of all the latest scholarship and research in the field. The text is ideal for those who want the proven reliability of Siegel's authorship in a shorter, paperback presentation with an emphasis on the career options open to students within the criminal justice system. ESSENTIALS OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, Sixth Edition, can also be packaged with CengageNOW™, a Web-based, intelligent study system that saves time for students and instructors by providing a complete package of diagnostic quizzes, a Personalized Study Plan, integrated multimedia elements, learning modules, and an instructor grade book.

Written and illustrated by two psychiatrists-in-training, this book is a cartoon guide to the variety of feelings commonly experienced by beginning psychotherapists and other helping professionals, be they psychiatrist, social workers, counselors, teachers, bartenders, or cab drivers. The various defensive and evasive maneuvers trainees learn to use in order to deal with the complexities and demands of therapeutic relationships often cause them to feel guilty. They discuss these maneuvers only with great difficulty. The disillusionment of idealistic beginners can end in cynicism and despair or it can find a middle ground of informed humanism. This witty book gives a sympathetic and insightful view of their anxieties. The authors point out the commonness, necessity, and even therapeutic value of these training experiences. The book also explores the complicated relationship between institutions, supervisors, therapists, and patients and raises important questions about the training of psychotherapists. Here is a fresh and candid view that anyone entering the helping professions will appreciate and that is certain to interest anyone undergoing psychotherapy. Stuart Copans is Director of Child and Adolescent Services at Brattleboro (Vt.) Retreat. Thomas Singer is a psychiatrist in private practice.

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Product Description: This fascinating new work focuses on the dramatic transformation of criminal justice since the end of World War II. The decisions handed down by the Supreme Court during the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren (1953-1969) revolutionized criminal procedure.

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Product Description: Written by a seasoned criminal defense attorney, Defense Investigation and Discovery in Criminal Cases shares trial-tested investigation and discovery methods. The book combines an exploration of theoretical and jurisprudential concepts that govern a defendant's right to obtain information from the prosecutor with practical advice on integrating discovery information into an effective defense...read more