Written by a lawyer and criminologist with teaching experience in both fields, "Criminal Law, Sixth Edition", provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date criminal law text available, covering all of the traditional areas of law and illustrating them with recent events. Unlike most criminal law texts, this text covers misdemeanors as well as felonies. The sixth edition covers the latest topics, including "three strikes you're out" laws, hate crimes, home invasion, posttraumatic stress disorders as defenses, and truth in sentencing. Coverage of traditional topics, such as murder, is updated with recent changes, such as the definition of death and inclusion of a fetus as a "person."
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"This book is the best in its field for undergraduates. . ."--J. Gary Boutwell, Lambuth University
"Criminal Law contains the components necessary to achieve an understanding of the theoretical, sociological basis of criminal law without becoming unnecessarily bogged down in the details. I am particularly impressed with the new cases. Students engage more quickly, completely, and for a longer period of time when the material is up-to-date. This text delivers."--Karren S. Price, Stephen F. Austin State University
"The treatment of law cases is unique. . . . Reid makes these cases readable, and this is a very attractive amenity for students who have trouble staying involved with long and often arcane court decisions. . . . The author has done a marvelous job covering the material."--J. Lincoln Passmore, Mount Ida College
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Criminal Law, Third Edition is an exceptionally up-to-date and comprehensive text written by an author who was trained in social science as well as law and has taught in both areas. Using a modified case approach (i.e., integrating selected case excerpts with text coverage), this book presents all the subjects traditionally taught in introductory criminal law, including topics not covered by all texts in this field--such as misdemeanors, organized crime, drugs, defenses (post-traumatic stress syndrome and battered persons syndrome among them), hate crimes, and treason, obstruction of justice, and other offenses. It includes discussions of common law, federal law, the Model Penal Code and some state statutes. This meticulous revision incorporates the very latest data available, new cases including 1994 decisions, and such recent developments as the Florida tourism murders, changes in gun law, and the proposed 1994 anti-crime legislation.
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Criminal Law, 7th Edition by Sue Titus Reid (Roxbury Publishing Company) This text offers a comprehensive, contemporary introduction to the vast scope of criminal law using a modified case approach. It focuses on applications to the real world through the generous use of cur¬rent events and case excerpts that help students connect to the material.
By featuring carefully excerpted court opinions and cases to illustrate important points, Reid gives stu¬dents a taste of the traditional case method without burdening them with massive amounts of legal material. The author's succinct writing style sustains student interest, minimizing unnecessary legal jar¬gon and academic terminology. The book's broad coverage includes misdemeanors as well as felonies, federal and state statutes and cases, and constitutional principles relating to criminal law. This edition engages student interest through its coverage of topics such as abortion, pornography, child abuse, domestic violence, animal cruelty, racketeering, cyberstalking, identity theft, terrorism, juvenile issues, drug abuse and trafficking, and sentencing. Ile hook also features recent Supreme Court cases involving the sexual behavior of gay men, the incarceration of repeat offenders, the legalization of the medicinal use of marijuana, physician-assisted suicide, the detention of -enemy combatants" without due process, and the consti¬tutionality of executing juveniles and the mentally challenged. Reid weaves appellate court cases into the text, helping familiarize students with how the judiciary thinks and responds to questions of law. This encourages students to develop their critical thinking skills by asking them to analyze court decisions in light of their own views and thinking. The Seventh Edition offers recent cases on corporate crime (such as Enron, Iwo, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, Adelphia, and HealthSouth), along with specific individuals charged with white-collar crimes, including Sam Waksal, Martha Stewart, Peter Bacanovic, and Richard M. Scrushy. The book also discusses high-profile crimes involving Kobe Bryant, Debra LaFave, Joseph Edward Duncan, III, Chante Mallard, Lynne Stewart, Terry L. Nichols, Michael Skakel, Andrew Luster, Andrew Fastow, Andrea Yates, Eric Rudolph, and juveniles Lionel Tate and Nathanial Brazil]. The book features an updated Instructor's Manual/Testing Program and Student Study Guide as well as state-specific Guides for California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas.
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Overly wordy, pretentious, dry, full of legal jargon. I had to withdraw from the class because I could never get through more than a few pages of the reading without falling asleep. It's like the author set out to make an interesting subject as boring as possible.
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