Books written by Craig Hemmens

Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues

Authors Walker and Hemmens have added introductory and summary chapters to this edition, which aid readers in understanding the context, importance, and applicability of the case law.
Criminal Procedure: Law and Practice

Greg's family knew Officer Peters because he lived in the same neighborhood and was a family friend. Officer Peters talked to Greg's parents and told them he had information about Greg's involvement in a murder.
Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court: A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights

New York (392 U.S. 40 [1968]), in which the Court ruled that the search of the arrestee's person was valid because it did not involve an “unrestrained and thorough-going examination of Peters and his personal effects.
Significant Cases in Juvenile Justice

In addition to the case summaries, the book includes lists of all of the cases it covers, both in alphabetical order and grouped by topic; a short introduction to each topic; and an index.
Significant Cases in Corrections

In addition to the case summaries, the book includes lists of all of the cases it covers, both in alphabetical order and grouped by topic; a short introduction to each topic; and an index.
Criminal Procedure: Law and Practice

Comprehensive and accurate without bogging readers down in unnecessary details, the text includes cutting-edge coverage of the law as it relates to arrests, searches and seizures, vehicle stops, use of force, interrogations, and line-ups.
Criminal Evidence: An Introduction

Focuses on the most important aspects of evidence law as it relates to criminal justice. This book covers various areas, such as the forms of evidence, the hearsay rule and...
Significant Cases in Criminal Procedure

This text is one of three books in the Criminal Justice Case Briefs series, each of which provides a summary and analysis of leading cases in a particular area of criminal justice: criminal procedure law, corrections law, or juvenile law.
Significant Cases in Juvenile Justice

This text is one of three books in the Criminal Justice Case Briefs series, each of which provides a summary and analysis of leading cases in a particular area of criminal justice: criminal procedure law, corrections law, or juvenile law.
Criminal Justice Case Briefs: Cases in Juvenile Justice

"Criminal justice case briefs: significant cases in juvenile justice is comprehensive in its treatment of juvenile law, covering all of the major cases in the area.
Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court: A Guide to the Major Decisions on Search and Seizure, Privacy, and Individual Rights

Placed in context with an introductory and concluding chapter, this book provides a summary and analysis of the 20 most significant Supreme Court cases dealing with criminal procedure, which have had the greatest impact on police ...
Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues

Today’s law enforcement officers, who are required to be highly knowledgeable about the law, will find this guide to be a valuable tool, bringing them up-to-date with developments in the law of arrest, search and seizure, police authority ...
Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues

Today, constitutional jurisprudence provides for three types of contact between citizens and the police: (1) consensual encounters; (2) brief detentions under the auspices of Terry v. ... 26 LEGAL GUIDE FOR POLICE § 3.2.
How to find success as a Criminal Justice faculty member

The currents of lethal violence: An integrated model of suicide and homicide. Albany: State University of New York Press. Unnithan, N. P., & Whitt, H. P. (1992). Inequality, economic development and lethal violence: A cross-national ...
Corrections: A Text/Reader

The Third Edition of Corrections: A Text/Reader provides you with the best of both worlds—a brief authored text accompanied by carefully selected and edited readings.
Introduction to Criminology: A Text/Reader

Thoroughly updated throughout with significant additions to the text parts, this Third Edition incorporates the latest theories, concepts, and research from sociology, psychology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and the neurosciences.
Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues

Including specific case examples, this revised edition adds introductory and conclusion material that provides context and offers the most current information for students and law enforcement professionals needing to develop a modern ...
Criminal Courts: A Contemporary Perspective

This comprehensive textbook covers court structure, courtroom actors, and the trial and appeal process.
Law, Justice, and Society: A Sociolegal Introduction

An accessible and lively introduction to the field, Law, Justice, and Society: A Sociolegal Introduction explores the relationship between legal systems and other social institutions using a distinctive sociological point of view.
Current Legal Issues in Criminal Justice: Readings

Written in accessible and jargonfree--but not "dumbed-down"--language, this text investigates such relevant topics as gun control, racial profiling, private prisons, medical marijuana, surveillance technology, juvenile waiver laws, inmate ...