Introduces printed and computerized legal references and research systems and explains how they can be used to help answer questions of law and to assemble other law-related information. Almost all of the examples involve legal issues related to criminal justice in order to demonstrate references an
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About the Author:
James R. Acker is a Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany. He has published numerous scholarly articles on subjects including capital punishment, criminal procedure, criminal law, and juvenile justice. He is co-author or co-editor of four books, including James R. Acker and David C. Brody, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE (Aspen Publishing Co. 1999), and James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm, and Charles S. Lanier (eds.), AMERICA'S EXPERIMENT WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE ULTIMATE PENAL SANCTION (Carolina Academic Press 1998).
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- PublisherJones & Bartlett Learning
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0834210134
- ISBN 13 9780834210134
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages426