Criminal Procedure: The Constitution and the Police

by Robert M. Bloom

Carefully crafted to aid students' understanding, this study guide:
- gives students a sense of the theoretical flow and logic of law enforcement by following police procedural order
- graphically demonstrates legal standards and concepts through the use of charts and illustrations.
- starts with basic, confidence-building examples and gradually moves on to more challenging examples that test students' knowledge and analytical skills
- utilizes the proven Examples and Explanations format to explain concepts and allow students to develop analytical and problem-solving skills
Special features of the Fifth Edition include:
- terrorism in the United States and the Fourth Amendment ramifications

Genres: Law

363 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1992

Reviews

[Colleen Chung]

Good explainer on criminal procedure law but the supplement would benefit a lot from having some overarching graphics on how to structure 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendment analyses since the rules are really comprehensive (see Studicata Youtube videos on criminal procedure analyses).

[Anne Fox]

This is a law text, which I purchased in order to more thoroughly understand criminal procedure as part of research for a series of books I'm currently writing. I found it thorough and informative, as well as well-written. About my only objection to the book concerns the form in which the examples and explanations were presented. I feel it would be clearer to the reader if each example was given individually, followed immediately by the explanation. As examples often had marked similarities to other examples given, with one or more differing by subtle nuances, I feel I would have derived more from them if the examples had not been presented collectively, followed by the explanations likewise given collectively.

[Elizabeth]

A lifesaver!

[Virg]

Total beach read.

[Marcus Cooper]

This isn't the best exam prep on the market, but it does explain the concepts clearly. my biggest quip is that it is sometimes too quick and loose with the law and the examples are too easy.