Jim Silver

The Crime Junkie's Guide to Criminal Law (eBook, PDF)

From Law & Order to Laci Peterson

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Historically, prime-time television has devoted at least one-third of its programming to crime. The extreme popularity of crime shows continues unabated. From Law & Order to CSI, Americans are riveted by crime TV. Court TV and other cable channels produce true crime series, too, that take viewers through both current crimes and trials and cold cases. Yet, despite efforts in these shows to depict real investigative and legal techniques, chances are, viewers have questions about criminal procedure, legal issues, and related concerns. For instance, why do police get angry when a suspect just asks for a lawyer? Or, what's the difference between being an accomplice to a crime and being a conspirator? The Crime Junkie's Guide to Criminal Law is written specifically for the millions of crime junkies who make up the audiences for the variety of crime dramas, both real and fictional, that blaze across our screens night after night. The news media know that crime is inherently interesting because it involves things we all understand - like passion, greed, revenge and the urge to make very close friends in prison. Television broadcasts and major magazines drip with salacious details about the infamous evildoings of the moment. From the sports to the style sections, newspaper headlines scream out reports of the latest celebrity picked up for one transgression or another. This one-of-a-kind book is an indispensable guide to criminal law that uses actual trials alongside plots and characters from popular television shows to illustrate criminal law issues like degrees of murder, the defense of intoxication, search warrants, insanity pleas, and the purposes of various pretrial hearings. Silver offers a concise, informative, and entertaining explanation of everything readers need to know to truly appreciate crime stories (real and fictional) and understand how criminal law really works.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781567206517
• Artikelnr.: 68528245

Autorenporträt

JIM SILVER is a former Assistant United States Attorney who prosecuted criminal cases in Washington, D.C. and argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Prior to that, he was a civil litigator at one of the nation's largest law firms. For the past ten years he has been an at-home dad and professional writer. He wrote a regular humor column for Worcester Magazine for two years and has had articles published in national publications such as Catholic Digest, AMA Alliance, and others, as well as many regional magazines and newspapers.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Setting the Stage 2. Recipe for Crime 3.
Homicide 4. Murder 5. Voluntary Manslaughter 6. Involuntary Manslaughter
7. Rape 8. Assault 9. Kidnapping 10. Acquisition Offenses 11. Burglary 12.
Arson 13. Perjury 14. Solicitation 15. Conspiracy 16. Attempt 17.
Accomplice Liability 18. Justification 19. Necessity and Duress 20.
Entrapment 21. Intoxication 22. Insanity 23. The Exclusionary Rule 24. The
Fourth Amendment: Arrests 25. The Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure 26.
Self-Incrimination 27. Pretrial Proceedings 28. Trial 29. Right to Counsel
30. Guilty Pleas 31. Sentencing 32. Double Jeopardy Index