Criminal Law - Hardcover

Reid, Sue Titus

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ISBN 10: 0195330765 ISBN 13: 9780195330762

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 2006

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Written by an esteemed criminologist and attorney, Criminal Law, Seventh Edition, uses a modified case approach to provide a comprehensive and contemporary introduction to the vast scope of criminal law. By employing carefully excerpted court opinions and cases to illustrate important points, author Sue Titus Reid gives students a taste of traditional case method without burdening them with massive amounts of legal material. Her succinct writing style minimizes unnecessary legal jargon and academic terminology, which helps to sustain students' interest.

The book's broad coverage includes misdemeanors, felonies, federal and state statutes and cases, and constitutional principles relating to criminal law. The seventh edition engages students through its coverage of such timely and provocative topics as the bombing of abortion clinics, pornography, child abuse, domestic violence, animal cruelty, racketeering, cyberstalking, identity theft, terrorism, elder abuse, juvenile issues, drug abuse and trafficking, and sentencing. This volume also features recent U.S. 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 constitutionality of executing juveniles and the mentally challenged.

Reid weaves appellate court cases into the text to 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 perceptions.

New to this edition:
* Includes recent cases on corporate crime (including Enron, Tyco, Arthur Andersen, WorldCom, Adelphia, and HealthSouth), along with those on specific individuals charged with white-collar crimes
* Each chapter closes with a substantive case excerpt and case preview for students to analyze, encouraging them to focus on principles and essentials in greater detail
* Features more state statutes to exemplify crimes; these generate student discussion about the differences among states. Also includes state-specific guides for California, Florida, Illinois, New York, and Texas
* Now in two colors

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From the Publisher:

The fifth edition retains its twelve-chapter format, but content has been carefully streamlined and shortened to make the material more manageable in a typical one-semester course.
This edition features more state statutes than previous editions, at times utilizing ones that show different ways to define the crime. For example, in the discussion of physician-assisted suicide, the text notes the Oregon statute (which permits it), the Washington and New York statutes (which do not), and the U.S. Supreme Court case upholding the latter two in 1997.
The chapter on Anticipatory crimes has been moved forward to chapter 3 (formerly chapter 10) to achieve a better fit with the way most people seem to teach the course.
This text continues to use a modified case approach, giving students actual case studies to illustrate critical points, but in an edited format so students are not unnecessarily burdened with the legal detail covered in law school.
Boxed inserts, called Focuses, contain statutes, current events, and other information designed to illustrate concepts discussed in the chapter and make them more relevant to students.
Each chapter concludes with study questions, which are designed to facilitate the combined purposes of (1) learning substantive criminal law and (2) thinking about criminal law and the problems and issues it raises.

About the Author:

Sue Titus Reid, J.D., Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Program of the Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. An accomplished scholar in both social sciences and the law, she is the author of Crime and Criminology, Twelfth Edition (OUP, 2008); Criminal Law: The Essentials (OUP, 2008); and Criminal Justice, Eighth Edition (2007).

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