America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System

by David W. Neubauer

Open this book and step into America's court system! What's it like to be a judge? A prosecutor? A defense attorney? With Neubauer's best-selling book, you'll find out! This fascinating and well-researched text gives you the sense of being in the courthouse-of what it is like to work in and be a part of the system. This concept of the courthouse "players" illustrates each person's important role in bringing a case through the court process. Throughout the text, Neubauer highlights not only the pivotal role of the criminal courts within the criminal justice system but also the court's importance and impact on society as a whole.

Genres: Nonfiction, School, Economics, American

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

Reviews

[Serena · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty solid read for a textbook. There may have been some skimming done at times, but I ultimately learned more about America's courts!

[☠︎︎༒︎✞︎ ѕℓιм ☠︎︎༒︎✞︎ · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had to read this for my judicial process class. I had taken, Hayes the class, the books was interesting enough for the course.

[Fox · Rating 3 out of 5]

Usually, I don't review textbooks, but for the sake of the profs, I should probably clarify that it's not an average book. It's not a bad book. It's good. I gave it a lower rating because 1) I'm a senior and this is clearly for a freshman level course (in my opinion), 2) while it is very precise and has some interesting things like the way it follows one single case (and a semi-famous one at that), it contains far more info than you can fill the little criminal justice or criminological brain with in one semester. Well, if you intend to get all of that info in the book into the course at least. Lastly, it's bloody expensive for being a book that covers such basic material. I mean, come on, you as a prof could probably find enough chapters from various books and have it bound into a packet to buy for far less.

[Colleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This isn't a bad textbook; the supplemental blurbs and features are interesting, but the material is fairly basic. Too basic, I thought, for the senior-level course for which this was assigned. I honestly didn't see much difference between this book and the introductory textbook I read for a lower-level course, apart from the fact that it only focuses on the court system, and only glosses over the law enforcement aspect that takes place before court proceedings.

[Melissa]

This book is an excellent edition to every and any law library. It goes into great detail of law by the book and law in action. I learned more reading this textbook than i have in the last two years of studying law which is sad in a way.

[Desiree Cochran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy to understand concepts. I liked the case up close sections the best.