Criminal Law - Hardcover

Reid, Sue Titus

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195389034 ISBN 13: 9780195389036

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr, 2009

Synopsis

The most accessible and up-to-date text on the market, Criminal Law, Eighth Edition, uses a wide sampling of federal and state statutes and cases to provide students with a comprehensive and contemporary introduction to the field. Employing a student-friendly and engaging writing style, leading scholar and author Sue Titus Reid eliminates complicated legal jargon from case excerpts while addressing timely, provocative issues. She also weaves appellate court cases into each chapter--particularly those with a focus on current events--in order to familiarize students with how the judiciary thinks about and responds to questions of law.

Completely updated throughout, the eighth edition covers:
· New information on common law and capital punishment
· The latest, most relevant court decisions (especially those of the U.S. Supreme Court)
· A broad range of issues including misdemeanors, felonies, federal and state statutes and cases, and constitutional principles relating to criminal law
· The most recent current events including child abuse, domestic violence, pornography, animal cruelty, racketeering, cyberstalking, identity theft, terrorism, elder abuse, juvenile issues, drug abuse and trafficking, and sentencing

This edition also incorporates numerous pedagogical features (boxes, figures, graphs, charts, key terms), newly-streamlined chapter introductions, and end-of-chapter "For Debate" questions, which promote lively class discussion.

The text is enhanced by a comprehensive support package containing:
· A Student Study Guide offering outlines; key terms; student learning objectives; and review, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short-answer practice questions
· An Instructor's Manual providing chapter outlines; key terms; student learning objectives; review questions; and a test bank with multiple-choice and short-answer and essay questions
· A Companion Website featuring additional information about the book and a downloadable Student Study Guide (PDF format)

An incisive, authoritative introduction, Criminal Law, Eighth Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courses in criminal law.

About this title

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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0195389034
• ISBN 13: 9780195389036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 426