Customer Reviews

Criminal Procedure

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The cases were written in an understandable English language and the CD-ROM was helpful in simplifing the chapters but they were too bare. They helped point you in the right direction but needed to be filled in a little more from the chapters.

This is a great book if you want to study criminal procedure. It is very detailed and provides additional information that explains each of the cases in it. Without this book, I must admit, some cases would be difficult to understand but the book makes it easy.

Covers a lot of court cases but does not explain some of the priciples very well.

This book was used with one of my elective criminal justice courses in college, and the material was overall pretty good, but our instructor had us read certain sections and skip others. Don't know how good it would be if you planned on reading it front to back.

A lot of these chapters were extremely easy to understand, and broke things down in a way that allowed me to both understand what was going on and apply it to other situations. It definitely summarizes things fairly well and adds a lot of court case examples to back up the text, which is nice to see real life examples of these cases within the book instead of having to search for them elsewhere.

This book was used in class for Law and Criminal Procedure. The textbook read great however, the supreme court rulings were difficult to follow. At times I thought I thought I was reading one legal outcome only to find out that I had the wrong interpretation of the law as described. I think it would help to do a little Legal terminology 101 just for review by yourself. Without it, certain aspects of the what the author is trying to convey may get lost in the terminology and legal jargon.

Thanks to books like this and Amazon, I am now a Criminalist without being broke.