Criminal Procedures: The Police: Cases, Statutes, and Executive Materials

By Marc L. Miller, Ronald F. Wright, Ronald F Wright

Book Overview

Now in its Third Edition, Criminal Procedures: The Police retains its comprehensive, student-friendly approach. This engaging treatment of criminal procedures depicts the enormous variety within criminal justice systems, placing a deliberate focus on the real-world context of the subject matter. This casebook continues to offer a solid, comprehensive treatment of criminal procedures. With an accessible style it: surveys the constitutional, statutory, and administrative doctrines and practices that shape how the police interact with citizens and investigate crimes examines the procedures and policies of both federal and state systems , assumptions and judgments underlying each, and how these systems interrelate and sometimes compete with one another looks at sources of law and doctrine from multiple institutions, including U.S. Supreme Court cases, state high court cases, statutes, rules of procedure, and police and prosecutorial policies discusses the influence of politics within various institutions of law enforcement addresses the role of public pressure on policing and procedure with regard to terrorism, drug trafficking, domestic abuse, And The treatment of crime victims provides interdisciplinary materials that explore the impact of criminal procedures on law enforcers, lawyers, courts, communities, defendants, and victims examines issues of race and justice in criminal procedures the authors introduce a variety of new information To The Third Edition: a selection of new state cases - all decided in 2000 or later - to keep the focus on current application of doctrine a strengthened emphasis on professional responsibility issues coverage of new U.S. Department of Justice policies on charging corporations discussions on the impact of "Global War on Terror" policies on wiretapping and searches in ordinary criminal prosecution

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0735569827
• ISBN13: 9780735569829
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Aspen Law & Business
• Length: 775 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Very thorough and useful book

This is a very thorough book and clearly written. You need to cover about 20-30 pages in the course of a 4.0 credit, one semester CRIM PRO class to finish the whole book. This can be challenging, but seeing as how many CRIM PRO courses are separated into two semesters, it is not so bad to finish the entire book. The first note after each case is the most important. It is important to supplement this book with lots of practice problems. Also, some supplementary cases may be necessary as the Roberts' court makes new law, but 99% of the book is current law.

Quick and Helpful

I received this book extremely quickly. This was convenient seeing as how it was the only book I received in time for school. While I did not need the book in the end, I was able to return the book for a full refund, which was also very prompt.

the book was well worth it

I need some information on highway crime if you could help please do so I am doing a research project and it's a very hard topic to find and also research, Thank you for your time