As historians shifted their interest from the romance, spectacle, and political intrigue during the reign of Elizabeth I to the actual lives of the people she ruled, they produced an impressive body of studies. Amid this impressive growth of historical scholarship, one significant discipline has been all but ignored - the law. Believing crime to be an outgrowth as well as a reflection of the social upheavals that took place during the Elizabethan Era, Professor Samaha have prepared an in-depth study of the Elizabethan system of criminal justice as it operated in Essex County during the last half of the sixteenth century. He shows in detail how the administration of justice worked on a day-to-day basis - i.e., what crimes were committed, who was prosecuted for them, who was convicted and who went free, what punishment was given for different offenses, and what standards were set up for determining legality and illegality. A licensed attorney as well as an historian, Professor Samaha is eminently qualified to describe the interaction of law and history. In this book, he skillfully examines the interrelationship between rising crime rates during the last half of the sixteenth century with the Western European population explosion and the birth of the industrial revolution. He reveals not only a real increase in crime, but also a shift in the community's attitude toward law and order - a change reflected in tougher application of the rules of criminal law, increasing numbers of appointed law-enforcement officials, and the emergence of a bureaucratic structure. This book represents a study of law in historical perspective that will be of great interest to scholars and professors of history and sociology, as well as specialists in English and Elizabethan history. --- from book's dustjacket

Law and Order in Historical Perspective: The Case of Elizabethan Essex (Studies in Social Discontinuity)

Samaha, Joel

Academic Press

Criminal Law

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

West Group

Principles of criminal procedure are presented chronologically as they apply to practices and procedures on the street, at the police station, and in the courts. Carefully edited cases are combined with the text narrative (about 55 percent text, 45 percent cases). The theme of balancing the interest in obtaining the correct result in individual cases and the interest in fairness obtained by due process of law lends focus to the text and cases. Decision Points illustrate practical applications of procedural law principles.

Criminal Procedure

Wadsworth Publishing

Text takes a broad approach to the study of criminal law, combining carefully edited cases with the text analysis (60 percent text, 40 percent cases). Brief Note Cases following the main excerpted cases show variations on the interpretation and application of general principles, not just rules applicable to a single jurisdiction. The texts historical perspective illustrates how the principles of law remain consistent while the laws themselves adapt with the changing times. Part One covers the general part of criminal law, including discussions of the nature and origins of criminal law, the constitutional limits on criminal law, the general principles of criminal liability, the doctrines of complicity and incomplete crimes, and the defenses of justification and excuse. Part Two examines the special part of the criminal law, including crimes against persons, habitation, property, and public order and morals.

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

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 law

West Pub.

West Pub. Co.

Joel Samaha's CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, Sixth Edition presents in clear, clean prose the central theme in constitutional democracies-balancing the need for government power to protect public safety with the guarantee of individual liberty and privacy. Samaha's straightforward approach helps students grasp the complexities of the criminal justice system.By focusing on comprehension and not memorization, he helps students understand our criminal procedures and why we need them. This text examines the constitutional requirements of criminal procedure and how these requirements are applied by the courts to law enforcement, prosecution, defense, pre-trial proceedings, adjudication, sentencing, appeal, and habeas corpus.

Criminal procedure

Criminal justice

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Law and Order in Historical Perspective: The Case of Elizabethan Essex (Studies in Social Discontinuity)

Criminal Law

Criminal Procedure

Criminal Law

Criminal Justice

Criminal Justice

Criminal law

Criminal law

Criminal procedure

Criminal justice