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Maximize your study time with this extensive study guide! Realizing students learn in different ways, the study guide author includes a variety of pedagogical tools to help you do your best. The guide outlines and summarizes each chapter, defines major terms and figures, and provides self-tests.
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An effective way to study and do your best in this course, this Study Guide includes a variety of learning aids. Each chapter is outlined and summarized, major terms and figures are defined, and self-tests are provided to help you review and retain what you read in the textbook.
Synopsis
An extensive student guide has been developed for this edition. Because students learn in different ways, the guide includes a variety of pedagogical aids to maximize their results. The guide outlines and summarizes each chapter, defines major terms and figures, and provides self-tests.
About the Author
Joel Samaha is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches Introduction to Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, The Supreme Court and the Constitution, and a special joint Sociology/History Department course entitled Is There a Wartime Exception to the Bill of Rights? He received his B.A., J.D., and Ph.D. from Northwestern University and studied under the late Sir Geoffrey Elton at Cambridge University, England. Professor Samaha was admitted to the Illinois Bar, briefly practiced law in Chicago, and then taught at UCLA. In 1971, he joined the University of Minnesota, where he served as Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice Studies for four years, taught television and radio courses in criminal justice, co-taught a National Endowment for the Humanities seminar in legal and constitutional history, and was named Distinguished Teacher in 1974. Professor Samaha's works have appeared in Historical Journal, American Journal of Legal History, Minnesota Law Review, William Mitchell Law Review, and Journal of Social History.