Constitutional Law and the Criminal Justice System |  | Authors: J. Scott Harr, Kären M. Hess
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Pages: 419
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 8.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 0495095435
Dewey Decimal Number: 345
EAN: 9780495095439
ASIN: 0495095435
Publication Date: March 7, 2007
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With Harr and Hess's "legalese-free" text, you'll gain a firm understanding of our often-complex Constitution and criminal justice system. To ground you in the laws that shape the system and our society, the authors present you with a clearly organized, 'bird's-eye" view of the topic, supported by over 200 summarized cases that introduce you to the most influential and pertinent cases. Harr and Hess also devote considerable time to an exploration of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, relevant because of their application to issues relevant to criminal justice: reasonable search and seizure, double jeopardy, and testifying against oneself.
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 Great Textbook December 4, 2007
Ada Lau (Phoenix, AZ USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This text is one of the best one out there. I hope that you have a class using this book. It is well organized and provide much useful information for daily life.
my review September 3, 2009
Timothy Wayne Freeman
I am very satisfied with the item I purchased from this seller. I would be very comfortable ordering from them again. I received a very accurate description of the item, and it was shipped promptly.
Good...but out of date already... March 19, 2009
Idaho Mountain Man (ID, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book helps explain all of the amendments and is a good textbook for college. The only issue that I had with this book was that in the Second Amendment part of the book they state that no court has ruled in favor of individual rights vs. state rights. This was all changed with the District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. (2008) case. Where the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual's right to possess a firearm for private use. It was the first Supreme Court case in United States history to directly address whether the right to keep and bear arms is a right of individuals or a collective right that applies only to state-regulated militias. So essentially this changes one of the main points that the textbook was trying to make. Other than that I found the book to be quite interesting and a very easy read. I would recommend it to anybody that would like to learn more about the American Constitutional Laws. I just hope they update the book soon.
con law September 20, 2009
Brittney L. Wagner (Pensacola, FL USA)
really goes in depth with how and where our law system came from. Why it was written the way it was.
 So-so CJ text April 5, 2000
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This text was ok, a lot better written than most of the criminal justice texts I've had to study from. There are the basic land mark cases and some other related cases for each amendment, though I would have liked to see more on the first and second.
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