Criminal Procedure (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac ) (Hardcover)

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Joel Samaha's straightforward, logical, and balanced presentation of legal issues helps student to grasp the complexities in a constitutional democracy of balancing the need for government power to secure public safety and guarantees of individual liberty and privacy. 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.

About the Author

Joel Samaha is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Minnesota. He teaches Introduction to Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and The Supreme Court and the Bill of Rights, 1865 to the present. He is both a lawyer and an historian whose primary research interest is the history of criminal justice. He received his B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Professor Samaha also studied under the late Sir Geoffrey Elton at Cambridge University, England. Professor Samaha was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1962. He taught at UCLA before coming to the University of Minnesota in 1971. At the University of Minnesota, he served as Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice Studies from 1974 to 1978. He now teaches and writes full time. He has taught both television and radio courses in criminal justice and has co-taught a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar in legal and constitutional history. He was named Distinguished Teacher at the University of Minnesota in 1974. Professor Samaha has published LAW AND ORDER IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, an analysis of law enforcement in pre-industrial English society, and he has transcribed and written a scholarly introduction to a set of criminal justice records in the reign of Elizabeth I. He has also written several articles on the history of criminal justice which have appeared in professional history journals and law reviews. In addition to this text, he has written two other textbooks with Wadsworth, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, now in its Sixth Edition, and CRIMINAL JUSTICE, also in its Sixth Edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 597 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 6th edition (June 30, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534629288
• ISBN-13: 978-0534629281
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #618,390 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Criminal Procedure with CD-ROM, September 4, 2005

By	N. Pearson (Sunny San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Fair text, December 25, 2007

By	James D. Chapman (Ar, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Criminal Procedure (Hardcover)

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

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4.0 out of 5 stars very good, February 23, 2009

By	Monica Lysko "collegestudent0610" (New York, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Criminal Procedure (Hardcover)

short delivery time. accurate description of book. no writing on pages. would order from again..