Code of Criminal Justice A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes

"Code of Criminal Justice: A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes "serves as a comprehensive and detailed work to assist those who are attempting to understand and apply United States criminal statutes. It contains, in complete verbatim text, hundreds of criminal statutes and preceding each statutory chapter, or group of chapters, is a fictional fact pattern, followed by a practical application section. Readers can utilize the fact patterns and practical applications to understand the language of the statutes and thereafter determine how to appropriately charge pursuant to them. *Contains hundreds of criminal statutes, ranging from the well-known, basic offenses to the uncommon criminal laws that that are rarely invoked *Explains the criminal statutes in easy to understand terms *Interesting and exciting fact patterns illustrate the criminal offenses *Easy to understand practical application sections explain what the criminal statutes mean, the differences among them and how to appropriately charge under them *A valuable text for students studying criminal law on all levels, with special end-of-chapter multiple choice and essay questions, and a comprehensive answer guide *The perfect guide for law enforcement officers and lawyers to better understand the convoluted statutory language *A unique, reader-friendly explanatory tool for the lay person to understand the criminal statutes *Deciphers the vague and unclear criminal statutes so all can easily understand them *Makes learning and understanding the criminal statutes more accessible and more enjoyableDel Vecchio, Kenneth is the author of 'Code of Criminal Justice A Practical Guide to the Penal Statutes', published 2007 under ISBN 9780131578296 and ISBN 0131578294.