On the Shelf at CCBC Libraries
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Search and Seizure by Call Number: REF.KF9630 .H34 2000 -
Search and Seizure Law Guidebook by Call Number: KF9630.A519 S43 2011 -
The Criminal Law Handbook by Criminal law in plain English. The criminal justice system becomes increasingly complex each year with new laws affecting legal processes. The Criminal Law Handbook explains every part of a criminal case including: - arrests - booking - preliminary hearings - charges - bail - arraignment - search and seizure - plea bargains - sentencing - juveniles The revised edition covers the latest changes in criminal law, including U.S Supreme Court cases. Written by the authors of Represent Yourself in Court, Paul Bergman, J.D. and Sara Berman, J.D.Call Number: KF9619.85 .B47 2013
Databases
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Nexis UniNew name for Lexis Nexis Academic. Newspaper articles and case law from the Supreme Court, federal and state, statutes and regulations, Shepard’s Citations, legal news and law reviews, international legal materials, and patents.
Other Important Documents
Online from CCBC Libraries
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Gale Encyclopedia of American LawCall Number: eBook KF154 -
Legal Ease: a Guide to Criminal Law by Legal Ease is a versatile book that addresses how laws evolve and change as if they were living, breathing entities that are a mirror reflecting societal change. This new third edition offers the reader an expansive and practical guide to the many aspects of law. Presented in three sections, the book explains the practice of law through all phases of the criminal justice system. Part One, Criminal Law Explained, offers a history of law, defines criminal conduct, and explains the tools attorneys use in their practice. Section Two, Criminal Procedure and Evidence, details the steps required to institute constitutional search, seizure, and arrest. It also provides a comprehensive description of the duties and responsibilities of prosecutors, defense attorneys, law enforcement, and court personnel. Section Three, A Walk Through the Criminal Justice System, takes the reader step-by-step through the process of a trial, from jury selection to verdict and sentencing, and finally to the appeal process. DefendantsOCO rights are discussed as they navigate through the criminal justice system. The ideas and principles behind the country's constitutional amendments are explained, with many case examples offered to illustrate. Additional topics new to this edition address privacy rights, picketing at funerals, free speech/cruelty to animals, youthful offenders and sentencing, strip search of students, sexting, deportation and minor drug cases, DNA testing, warrantless search, medicare scams, and workforce retaliation, among others. The inclusion of OC Key WordsOCO and OC Questions for Review and DiscussionOCO sections at the end of each chapter will prove invaluable to instructors and students. This comprehensive volume continues to give groups who are new to the scene, as well as those who arenOCOt, an easy-to-read book of reference for all those nuances the law continues to press onto the legal system."Call Number: eBook KF9219 .C36 2012 -
Search and Seizure by Call Number: eBook KF9630 .W66 2006 -
Police Ethics by Call Number: eBook HV7924 .B37 2011 -
Ethics and Accountability in Criminal Justice by Call Number: eBook HV7419.P74 2009
