Book Description Used by over 300,000 students, the best-selling CRIMINAL LAW is a truly distinctive text. The proven hallmarks of Joel Samaha's well-written and clear-but-sophisticated presentation of the law with carefully selected and edited, interesting case excerpts, make this text ideal for a wide array of teaching and learning styles. While the text is comprehensive enough to stand on its own, professors who prefer casebooks?but want to provide their students with the scaffolding to better understand and interpret the law?will have the flexibility of integrating the case excerpts into their lectures easily and effectively. Students will benefit from using this comprehensive criminal law textbook that includes carefully selected, integrated case excerpts.

Criminal Law- Text Only

Politics & Social Sciences

Joel SAMAHA

Social Sciences

Thomson/Wadsworth

Joel Samaha is the best-selling author of three major textbooks in Introduction to Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, and Criminal Procedure. His success stems from his ability to present legal issues in a lucid and methodical manner. This text's success can be attributed to the author's ability to help the student grasp the complexities of the criminal justice system and the laws by presenting all sides of an issue equally. Samaha wants the students to understand why procedures are as they are instead of simply memorizing them. This is a comprehensive and legally-oriented text, focusing on the law as it is written, not solely from a layperson's point of view.

Criminal Procedure

Reference

West Group

Thorough, mainstream introduction to the criminal justice system that explores both the formal (legal) and informal (behaviors, actions, judgements) dimensions of each part of the process. Covers the traditional core of the criminal justice system (police, courts, and corrections), focusing on the decision- making and evaluation of criminal justice policies and practices. Takes a provocative view of the CJ system to encourage critical thinking, providing a realistic look at problems as well as new programs which offer promise for the future. Dramatic scenarios and thought-provoking presentation of both sides of controversial criminal justice issues inject slices of Samaha's award-winning teaching style into the text. You Decide boxes and other real-life scenarios make the data, cases, and concepts more relevant for students. Unique Historical Notes compare and contrast opinions, issues, conclusions, and recommendations from the past with modern criminal justice policies.

Criminal Justice

Rules & Procedures

Criminal Justice / Instructors Manual

Criminal Law

Criminal Justice Study Guide

West Publishing Company

Instructor's Manual with Test Bank to Accompany Criminal Justice Second Edition

Centgage Learning

Wadsworth

Now featuring a new Interactive CD-ROM, this Seventh Edition of the best-selling text in criminal law presents classic and contemporary cases, depending on which best illustrates a particular law. Samaha focuses on presenting a number of fully explicated cases, including some case excerpts, to cover the range of criminal law.

Wadsworth Publishing

Designed to realistically fit in a one-semester course, this new Sixth Edition of Samaha's CRIMINAL JUSTICE does an outstanding job of covering the basics of the criminal justice system while challenging students to think critically about the important social issues in criminal justice. This text thoroughly prepares students for more advanced criminal justice courses, covering topics such as public police, courts, corrections, and private security and corrections. From a critical thinking point of view, Samaha introduces students to those professionals who work within the criminal justice system, covering subjects such as entrance requirements, education and training, promotions, and the discipline and removal of criminal justice personnel. This text also includes coverage of victims and offenders and addresses the questions: Who are the victims? Why are they victimized? What role do they play in criminal justice? Who are the offenders? And, why do they commit crimes? With a clear theme of decision making throughout the text, Samaha presents criminal justice as a decision making process - the Decision Making Paradigm - that is impacted by the decisions made by offenders, victims, police, prosecutors, courts, and corrections agencies. Leaner by nearly 40 percent from the previous edition, Samaha's conversational writing style keeps students engaged as he addresses serious, current topics from all sides, using clear examples and the latest available information and research.

Criminal Justice (Non-InfoTrac Version with CD-ROM)

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