Comprehensive Criminal Procedure

Comprehensive Criminal Procedure
ISBN-10
1454868295
ISBN-13
9781454868293
Series
Comprehensive Criminal Procedure
Category
Criminal procedure
Pages
1792
Language
English
Published
2016-02-29
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Authors
William J. Stuntz, Ronald Jay Allen, Joseph L. Hoffmann

Description

Comprehensive Criminal Procedure is a casebook for all introductory courses in criminal procedure law (including both investigation and adjudication courses, as well as comprehensive and survey courses). The casebook focuses primarily on constitutional criminal procedure law, but also covers relevant statutes and court rules. The casebook is deliberately challenging it is designed for teachers who want to explore deeply not only the contemporary state of the law, but also its historical and theoretical foundations. The casebook incorporates a particular emphasis on empirical knowledge about the real-world impacts of law-in-action; the significance of race and class; the close relationship between criminal procedure law and substantive criminal law; the cold reality that hard choices sometimes must be made in a world of limited criminal justice resources; and, finally, the recognition that criminal procedure law always should strive to achieve both fairness to the accused and justice for society as a whole.

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