Criminal Law: Examples and Explanations (Examples & Explanations Series) [Paperback]

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

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2004 | ISBN-10: 0735540802 | ISBN-13: 978-0735540804 | Edition: 3

A favorite among law students and professors alike, the Examples & Explanations series is ideal for studying, reviewing and testing your understanding through application of hypothetical examples. Authored by leading professors with extensive classroom experience, Examples & Explanations titles offer hypothetical questions in the subject area, complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topic, and compare your own analysis.

Product Details

• Paperback: 502 pages
• Publisher: Aspen Law & Business; 3 edition (February 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0735540802
• ISBN-13: 978-0735540804
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,125 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.