Criminal Law By Storm

Author : Lisa M. Storm
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483433838
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminal Law By Storm written by Lisa M. Storm and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal Law By Storm begins with the foundations of law and the legal system, then extensively explores criminal laws and defenses using general state and federal principles, the Constitution, and the Model Penal Code as guidelines. This engaging and interactive textbook will enhance your ability to be successful in academics or a career in law, criminal justice, or paralegal. Lisa M. Storm, Esq. has taught at the community college, four-year, and graduate levels since 1992. Currently, she is a tenured faculty member in Administration of Justice at Hartnell College, a California Community College. She is also an attorney and licensed member of the California State Bar.

Author : Lisa M. Storm
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1483443086
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminal Procedure By Storm written by Lisa M. Storm and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criminal Procedure By Storm begins with the foundations of law and the legal system, and then extensively explores the criminal process using the Constitution and US Supreme Court precedent as guidelines. After reading Criminal Procedure By Storm, you will be familiar with the nature and sources of law, the court system, the law of search and seizure, proper investigative techniques, and the adversarial process.

Author : Gail A. Caputo
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555536961
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out in the Storm written by Gail A. Caputo and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Out in the Storm examines thirty-eight drug-addicted women in the Philadelphia area who have taken up shoplifting and sex work to finance their habits and their lives."--Back cover.

Author : Paul H. Robinson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198036319
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law without Justice written by Paul H. Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If an innocent person is sent to prison or if a killer walks free, we are outraged. The legal system assures us, and we expect and demand, that it will seek to "do justice" in criminal cases. So why, for some cases, does the criminal law deliberately and routinely sacrifice justice? In this unflinching look at American criminal law, Paul Robinson and Michael Cahill demonstrate that cases with unjust outcomes are not always irregular or unpredictable. Rather, the criminal law sometimes chooses not to give defendants what they deserve: that is, unsatisfying results occur even when the system works as it is designed to work. The authors find that while some justice-sacrificing doctrines serve their intended purpose, many others do not, or could be replaced by other, better rules that would serve the purpose without abandoning a just result. With a panoramic view of the overlapping and often competing goals that our legal institutions must balance on a daily basis, Law without Justice challenges us to restore justice to the criminal justice system.

Author : William J. Chambliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminal Law in Action written by William J. Chambliss and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roscoe Pound
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412820653
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Criminal Justice in America written by Roscoe Pound and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roscoe Pound believed that unless the criminal justice system maintains stability while adapting to change, it will either fossilize or be subject to the whims of public opinion. In Criminal Justice in America, Pound recognizes the dangers law faces when it does not keep pace with societal change. When the home, neighborhood, and religion are no longer capable of social control, increased conflicts arise, laws proliferate, and new menaces wrought by technology, drugs, and juvenile delinquency flourish. Where Pound saw the influence of the motion pictures as part of the "multiplication of the agencies of menace," today we might cite television and the Internet. His point still holds true: The "old machinery" cannot meet the evolving needs of society. In Criminal Justice in America, Pound points out that one aspect of the criminal justice problem is a rigid mechanical approach that resists change. The other dimension of the problem is that change, when it comes, will result from the pressure of public opinion. Justice suffers when the public is moved by the oldest of public feelings, vengeance. This can result in citizens taking the law into their own hands—from tax evasion to mob lynchings—as well as in altering the judicial system—from sensationalizing trials to producing wrongful convictions. Ron Christenson, in his new introduction, discusses the evolution of Roscoe Pound's career and thought. Pound's theories on jurisprudence were remarkably prescient. They continue to gain resonance as crimes become more and more sensationalized by the media. Criminal Justice in America is a fascinating study that should be read by legal scholars and professionals, sociologists, political theorists, and philosophers.

Author : Radley Balko
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610396928
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist written by Radley Balko and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart. Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system -- a relic of the Jim Crow era -- failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues.

Author : Leo Katz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787503652905
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Criminal Law written by Leo Katz and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul H. Robinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538102021
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crimes That Changed Our World written by Paul H. Robinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can crime make our world safer? Crimes are the worst of humanity’s wrongs but, oddly, they sometimes “trigger” improvement in our lives. Crimes That Changed Our World explores some of the most important trigger cases of the past century, revealing much about how change comes to our modern world. The exact nature of the crime-outrage-reform dynamic can take many forms, and Paul and Sarah Robinson explore those differences in the cases they present. Each case is in some ways unique but there are repeating patterns that can offer important insights about what produces change and how in the future we might best manage it. Sometimes reform comes as a society wrestles with a new and intolerable problem. Sometimes it comes because an old problem from which we have long suffered suddenly has an apparent solution provided by technology or some other social or economic advance. Or, sometimes the engine of reform kicks into gear simply because we decide as a society that we are no longer willing to tolerate a long-standing problem and are now willing to do something about it. As the amazing and often touching stories that the Robinsons present make clear, the path of progress is not just a long series of course corrections; sometimes it is a quick turn or an unexpected lurch. In a flash we can suddenly feel different about present circumstances, seeing a need for change and can often, just as suddenly, do something about it. Every trigger crime that appears in Crimes That Changed Our World highlights a societal problem that America has chosen to deal with, each in a unique way. But what these extraordinary, and sometime unexpected, cases have in common is that all of them describe crimes that changed our world.

Author : Richard Dooling
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307828808
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brain Storm written by Richard Dooling and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attorney Joe Watson had never been to court except to be sworn in. He did legal research, investigating copyright infringement in video games (addressing such matters as: Did CarnageMaster plagiarize their beheading sequence from Greek SlaughterHouse?). He was a Webhead, a cybernerd doing support work for the lawyers in his firm who did go to court. And he was good at it. He was on track to become one of the youngest partners in the firm, and he was able--by a hair--to support his wife and children in an affluent neighborhood. Then he got notice that the tyrannical Judge Whittaker J. Stang had appointed him to defend James Whitlow, a small-time lowlife with a long rap sheet accused of a double hate crime: killing his wife's deaf black lover. When Watson stubbornly decides not to plead out his client, he is soon evicted from his comfortable life: His boss fires him, his wife leaves him and takes the children, and the Whitlow case begins to consume all of his time. He has only two allies--Rachel Palmquist, a beautiful, brainy neuroscientist with her own designs on his client and on Watson himself, and Myrna Schweich, a punk criminal-defense lawyer with orange hair who swears like a trooper and definitely inhales. Watson's finished. Or is he?To answer that question requires, among many other things, a brain scan for Watson in a state of strapped-down arousal, a Voice Transcription Device to eavesdrop on a dead deaf man's conversation, two chimpanzees who have no choice but to love each other, and a blind news vendor who demonstrates a real touch when it comes to making money. For all the Dickensian energy and humor of this ingenious story, Brain Storm also stands at the center of many modern controversies, from the death penalty and the circus atmosphere of criminal trials to neuroscientific and moral quandaries about sex, crime, and religion. Rachel tells Watson that free will is a fiction: "There's not much you can do about it if you're biologically predisposed to violence or sexual misbehavior. You just have to make the best of it, and try not to get caught." Once a deliberate yes-man at home and in the office, Joe Watson finds himself fighting not only to save his marriage and his career but also to hold intact his conviction that a person is more than a series of chemical reactions.