Product Description

The tools to practice investigation techniques are all here! This CD-ROM, with its accompanying website, places students in the center of the action as they make decisions as patrol officer, detective, prosecutor, defense attorney, judge, corrections officer, and parole officer. As students interact with one of the three realistic in-depth simulations, they are guided through each stage of the case--from crime scene investigation to arrest, trial, incarceration, and parole or probation.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #147856 in Books
• Published on: 2003-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: CD-ROM
• 1 pages

About the Author
John N. Ferdico holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and a B.A. in Sociology from Dartmouth College. He is a former Assistant Attorney General and Director of Law Enforcement Education for the State of Maine. Other books he has published are FERDICO'S CRIMINAL LAW AND JUSTICE DICTIONARY and the MAINE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER'S MANUAL. Ferdico currently writes and runs a legal publishing company in Bowdoinham, Maine.

Henry F. Fradella is Professor and Chair, Department of Criminal Justice, at Long Beach, and a well-respected author and academician. Fradella was born in New York, NY, and grew up in that city and its Monmouth Country, NJ, suburbs. After graduating with highest honors from the Searing School in Manhattan in 1986, Fradella earned a B.A. in psychology in 1990 from Clark University, graduating summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Fradella then earned a Masters in Forensic Science and a law degree in 1993 from The George Washington University and a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary justice studies from Arizona State University in 1997. Prior to becoming a full-time academic, Fradella worked as an autopsy technician in the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Washington, D.C.; practiced law; and worked in the federal courts as a judicial law clerk. He began his career in academia as Assistant Professor at The College of New Jersey. After having earned tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate and then full Professor over ten years, Fradella resigned from TCNJ in 2007 to become a professor in, and chair of, the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University, Long Beach. Fradella is the author of over sixty articles, reviews, and scholarly commentaries; three sole-authored books; and three additional books written with co-authors. Four of these six books were published by Wadsworth. Dr. Fradella has guest edited two volumes of the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CRIMINAL JUSTICE, and served three terms as Legal Literature Editor for West's Criminal Law Bulletin.

Christopher Totten has a J.D. and L.L.M. (Masters in Law) from Georgetown University, is a member of the State Bar of Maryland, and has worked as an attorney and client advocate at a number of commercial law firms. He is an assistant professor of Criminology at The College of New Jersey, where he acts as the faculty advisor for the Law and Society concentration and teaches numerous law courses. He has published in key journals such as the JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY and the BERKELEY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Customer Reviews

Class room book
This book is very well layed out, it is also very well written. It is one of the many books I plan on keeping after recieving my degree.

I do not recommend this book
I am currently using this textbook for a course on Criminal Procedure and find it the most poorly written text for instructional use I have encountered in many, many years. Not only does the text read poorly, making it difficult to get a concise definition for key terms, but it is full of typos and mistakes. My impression is that it was either not proofed at all, or they were so anxious to rush it to print that they didn't take the time to proof the book. An over-priced book that is certainly not even a text to keep as a reference. If I could have given it no stars or minus 3 stars I would have.

CJ book
This textbook has so much information that i felt well prepared to challenge my next upper level courses.