Criminal Law (The Examples & Explanations Series), 4e [Paperback]

Richard G. Singer (Author), John Q. La Fond (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0735562431 | ISBN-13: 978-0735562431 | Publication Date: February 26, 2007 | Edition: 4th

Part of the unique, time-tested <i>Examples & Explanations</i> series, <b> Examples & Explanations: Criminal Law, Fourth Edition</b> combines textual material with well-written and comprehensive examples, explanations, and questions to test students' understanding of the material and provide practice in applying information to fact patterns. Utilizing well-known cases, this brief text is an ideal supplemental source for your Criminal Law course. Additionally, the questions, which call upon a variety of issues in one fact pattern, mirror those that students will face on a law school or bar examination, affording them valuable practice. <p class="copymedium"> <b>Many great features maintain the reliability of this text:</b> </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> utilizes current, well-known cases, some of which have not made the appellate courts or even gone to litigation, to make the material current and easily applicable </li> <li class="copymedium"> includes explanations that provide analysis of both prosecution and defense arguments, offering a pedagogical approach that provides valuable exam-writing skills for students </li> <li class="copymedium"> remains highly readable and accessible, often incorporating popular culture and humor to spark interest in students </li> <li class="copymedium"> comes highly recommended by Atticus Falcon, author of Planet Law School, an orientation guide for students beginning law school </li> <li class="copymedium"> offers a straightforward presentation through clear, introductory text that enables students to understand and apply principles </li> <li class="copymedium"> incorporates visual aids, in the form of graphs, charts and other illustrations, to demonstrate legal standards and concepts </li> </ul> <p class="copymedium"> <b>Updated to reflect recent developments in the news and case law since the Third Edition was published, including:</b> </p> <ul> <li class="copymedium"> more coverage of new excuses, such as Prozac, Serotonin, Testosterone, etc. </li> <li class="copymedium"> examples and explanations based on prescription drug-induced sleepwalking, death caused by abuse of time-release pain-killing patches, and void for vagueness challenges to laws limiting where sex offenders can live or travel </li> <li class="copymedium"> Florida self-defense and right-to-carry laws </li> <li class="copymedium"> recent Supreme Court cases on the insanity defense (<i>Arizona v. Clark</i>) and duress (<i>Dixon v. United States</i>) </li> <li class="copymedium"> recent Supreme Court case on mental competency </li> <li> over 50 new examples, including materials on <ul> <li> steroid rage </li> <li> the Zoloft (Prozac) defense </li> <li> terrorism statutes and prosecutions </li> <li> the San Francisco dog maul case </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p>

Product Details

• Paperback: 580 pages
• Publisher: Aspen Publishers; 4th edition (February 26, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735562431
• ISBN-13: 978-0735562431
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money!, April 26, 2008

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Chad Pryor (Indianapolis, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Criminal Law (The Examples & Explanations Series), 4e (Paperback)

This book provides a cursory overview of criminal law at best. If you're a fan of Glannon, don't get this book. You'll be disappointed. For example, while courts and scholars debate the effectiveness of distinguishing between general and specific intent crimes, it is probably something you're going to have to learn. This book gives it one page. Worse than that is that the authors literally spend more time saying that the distinction is worthless than they do on helping you understand the difference. In fact, they don't actually try to define either; they provides a couple of mere examples of each.

This is just an example of the problems with this book. Trust me, you'd be better off skimming a treatise.

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Almost Worthless, December 23, 2007

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Jean-Paul (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Criminal Law (The Examples & Explanations Series), 4e (Paperback)

This book is not in the same league as other E&E books. It is not very clear, the charts are confusing and some parts of the book give downright wrong information. If you have a teacher who emphasizes the MPC, this book is a total waste. Otherwise, it's a total mess. Do NOT use this book to teach yourself the course because some of the information is wrong and unless you already know the material well enough to pick out the bad information, you will be screwing yourself. I would not recommend this to anyone.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars E&E lover--hated it, December 9, 2008

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This review is from: Criminal Law (The Examples & Explanations Series), 4e (Paperback)

I own all of the E&Es from the classes I have taken so far and find them all useful, except this one.

I felt like this author tried too hard to prove how tricky and smart he was. A lot of the examples gave "gotcha!" explanations that most professors would never require students to know. I would have preferred questions that required me to go through the elements in a more normal way and look for broader problems in the fact patterns, not weird exceptions.

Overall, this book made me paranoid looking for hidden issues that weren't in my professor's problems. Luckily I realized this before my final and was able to find other practice problems/answers that actually helped me.