Criminal Procedures: Prosecution & Adjudication

<p> Offering a detailed account of the "bail to jail" segment of the criminal process, <b>Criminal Procedures: Prosecution and Adjudication, Third Edition</b> , lays out the essentials of this process. It offers an engaging, comprehensive, and highly teachable survey of the laws and practices at work between the time a person is charged and the time the courts resolve the offender's conviction and sentence. </p><p><b>Instructors can continue to place their trust in the expertise of this quality casebook. It:</b></p><ul><li> covers in detail the "<b>bail to jail"</b> portion of the criminal process </li><li> offers an <b>extensive use of documents from multiple institutions</b>, including: U.S. Supreme Court cases, state high court cases, statutes, rules of procedure, and prosecutorial policies </li><li> provides a <b>real world perspective</b> that focuses on issues of current importance to defendants, lawyers, courts, legislators, and the public </li><li> presents an <b>interdisciplinary examination of the impact that various procedures</b> have on the enforcers, lawyers, courts, communities, defendants, and victims </li><li> is <b>written by two leading scholars</b> in this field, both of whom have practiced, taught, and written about the criminal justice process </li><li><b>examines issues of race and justice</b> in criminal procedures </li></ul><p><b>The Third Edition remains timely and current, offering: </b></p><ul><li><b>a selection of new state cases</b>— all decided in 2000 or later — to maintain a current focus on application of doctrine </li><li> a strengthened emphasis on <b>professional responsibility issues</b></li><li><b>coverage of new U.S. Department of Justice policies</b> on charging and sentencing </li><li> discussions on the <b>impact of "Global War on Terror" policies on detention</b> and <b>habeas corpus</b> in ordinary criminal prosecution </li></ul><p></p><p></p>