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Book Description - This constitutional law text focuses primarily on the Fourth Amendment (reasonable search and seizure) and the Fifth Amendment (double jeopardy, testifying against oneself), since they are the most relevant to criminal justice issues. Harr and Hess, authors of several successful texts in the areas of criminal procedure, criminal justice employment, and policing issues, have taken the most complex of material and made it into a student-oriented, manageable text that covers the key issues related to our Constitution and the criminal justice system.

Book Description - Completely revised in 1999, the Seventh Edition of Black's Law Dictionary is the premier legal reference resource. This edition contains over 24,000 definitions, 4,500 of which are completely new to the Seventh Edition. Helpful extras include a list of legal maxims, the U.S. Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a time chart of the United States Supreme Court, a Federal Circuit Map, and British Regnal Years. This Deluxe Edition is handsomely bound and features easy-to-use thumb-indexing.

Amazon.com - Thanks to TV cop shows, most Americans can probably recite the Miranda warnings, but do they know when the warnings do--and do not--apply? Tort reformers cite the $2.7 million in punitive damages a jury awarded a little old lady in Albuquerque when the cup of coffee she had set between her legs spilled and scalded her. These crusaders against "excessive" damage awards do not usually note that the trial judge reduced the award to $480,000, or that the coffee was 20 degrees hotter than competitors' coffee.
The law is all around. People continually invoke their rights, and every year millions of Americans are involved in formal legal proceedings. Yet most people are ignorant of even the basic concepts and organizing principles of U.S. law. Into the breach comes Jay Feinman's engrossing book Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System. Akin to a crash course in the first year of law school, Law 101 is a clearly written, eminently readable guide to the tenets of our legal system. It is structured around basic questions such as "If a contract is unfair, can a court refuse to enforce it?" and replete with clarifying examples--real and hypothetical. In explaining battery, Feinman writes: "If someone consents to a certain bodily invasion, he does not necessarily consent to any bodily invasion, however. When Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield are in a boxing match, Holyfield has consented to Tyson punching him in the nose ... but he has not consented to Tyson biting off a piece of his ear." Much clearer.

Law 101 won't instruct you on how to write your will or get divorced, but it will educate you at a more systematic level. It is also a great read. --J.R.

Book Description - Written by a lawyer/criminologist with teaching experience in both criminology and law, Criminal Law, Sixth Edition provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date criminal law text available, covering all traditional areas of law and illustrating them with recent current events. Unlike most criminal law texts, this text covers misdemeanors as well as felonies. A modified case approach illustrates critical points with actual case studies in an edited format.

Book Info - (IDG Books Worldwide) Fun and easy steps to putting the law into perspective, from credit cards and taxes to insurance and wills. The CD-ROM contains more than 100 legal forms, checklists, and templates, as well as contract information for legal resources. System requirements include CD-ROM drive and Windows 95+. Softcover.
  

Book Description - The ability to adapt to the continual changes necessitated by American freedoms is one of the hallmarks of the American justice system. Law in America celebrates the history of this complex, ever-shifting process, detailing landmark cases, famous trials, and the influence of the media, as well as chronicling how popular culture has viewed lawyers and the judicial system over the last 250 years. The authors also profile individuals who have interpreted existing law and carved out new legal frontiers. Generously illustrated throughout, Law in America features images of the evolution of courthouse architecture; engravings and paintings depicting the legal system at work by artists including Thomas Hart Benton, Jacob Lawrence, John Singleton Copley, and Norman Rockwell; photographs and portraits from landmark cases and decision makers; and famous newspaper headlines, political cartoons, and movie stills. Includes 180 color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations.