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Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice (Ethics in Crime and Justice)

Joycelyn M. Pollock

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

Book 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I used this book for my crimnal justice ethics course and I did not find it to be very useful. The only purpose this book served was for my quizes I took through the course, otherwise the rest of the material was from my professor. Even my professor didn't care for this book very much either.

Should have specified book was torn-not used 3 out of 5 stars.
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The book was classified as used but did not specifically say on the condition of the book being torn. The book was in really bad condition.

Steer clear of paralegalwork 1 out of 5 stars.
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I would strongly recommend against any profession in the legal arena unless you want to become an atty. Working for attys is unpleasant to say the least. The hostile environment of a law firm is stressful, and I've seen a few legal secretaries go out on stress leave. Seeing a law staff member cry at work is not unusual. Many attys are hard to please no matter what you do, and sometimes it can be hard to hold onto a job, not because of your work performance but because many attys will find something to criticize no matter how well you do your job. There's more than one way to do a certain task. You chose one way, and he criticizes you for not doing it the other way. If you ask him which way he'd like it done, he's angry that you bothered him.

Most paralegals/legal secretaries will get fired once or twice in their careers. Again, it has nothing to do with poor job performance. I was fired once in 8 years that I worked in this field. It's very stressful to show up everyday to a job, continuously feeling like you're skating on thin ice because the vibe you get is that you will be let go at any time. When you know you are an intelligent person with outstanding skills and attention to detail who shows up to work on time every day and thoroughly completes projects, there's not a whole lot you can do about that. Yeah, I could look for another job, but unfortunately, job jumping won't get you away from it because this is an industry-wide problem. At one job I was completely burnt out and thoroughly exhausted. Every ounce of my energy and strength had been zapped. I just let them fire me. I wanted to live on unemployment even if I couldn't afford it. I just needed a break. During my 8 years in this crap, I worked at 4 firms and temped at 3. Only one of those firms had a decent environment. None of them, however, gave yearly raises that matched the going rate despite stellar employee reviews.

There is a demand, not because the number of available jobs is increasing but because more and more paralegals and legal secretaries are tired of the nonsense and leaving the field. I live in a large metropolitan area. I know of at least two community colleges in my area that discontinued their legal secretary programs because not enough people enrolled to keep it open. More and more people are becoming aware of the problems in the legal industry and are avoiding this field.

And as far as pay goes, it's not that great. It's dead end because there's no ladder of success to climb. If you are young and single, it might be a good way to generate some work experience, but as you get older and want to advance your life, it's not a good choice. If you're an ambitious person who wants a career with promotion opportunities, this isn't for you. If you are an independent thinker and a natural leader, this definitely isn't for you.

Another thing, I can't emphasize the attorney maltreatment of staff enough. If you are single and middle-aged, i.e., no husband with a good job to fall back on and too old to go back home to the parents, that gives the firm leverage against you. They see you as someone less likely to quit, and they might stick you with the more undesirable jobs (difficult atty), and your raises might be worse. If you're a single mom (like me), that can give the firm yet more leverage. They would expect a single mom to be someone who most needs a job and most likely to put up with the most crap to keep it. My last employer was shocked when I walked in and told them I was leaving. Unlike most people my age (believe me, I'm older than dirt), I moved back home with my kid. That meant leaving the state and giving up everything I had. As a paralegal, however, I didn't have the ability to accomplish much; so I had very little to lose in starting over.

Yelling, slamming doors, things slammed down on desks are normal occurrences in law offices. If you stick around long enough, you will see an atty throw a notebook at a staff member and maybe even see physical confrontation (it happened at my firm once, but I missed it because I just happened to leave early that day for an interview at another firm!). Best case scenario - you will be spoken to condescendingly every now and then, and you won't get too much overtime. That's another thing. They don't respect you and think the world revolves around them. So get used to an atty putting projects that take 3 hours to complete on your desk after 4pm and telling you he wants it complete and on his desk before you leave that evening.

One more thing about pay-The only way to maintain a decent salary is to change jobs every 2 years or so. Year-end raises might match cost of living, but it's very rare for a year-end raise match the going rate for legal staff. New paralegals and secretaries get hired at the current rate; so they make more than those with seniority, believe it or not (assuming the new hiree has about the same experience as the tenured employees). This is another way the firm uses its leverage with its employees. They know that most people don't like change and would rather keep the same job - it's scary to start over elsewhere because the law field has an industry wide hostile environment - and in a situation like that it's better to stay with what you are familiar with. Chances are high that changing jobs will get the person right back into the same situation anyways, except that she did bump her salary up a little. The firms know that a paltry raise usually isn't enough to send a lot of its employees packing; so why should it pay good wages when they get the same quality employees for less?? A law firm will milk its employees for everything it can possibly get but will give back barely enough to keep the employees coming back.


If you are considering paralegal as a career, I would recommend the following books also:

"When Smart People Work for Dumb Bosses..."
"Coping with Toxic Managers..."
"When you work for a bully..."

There are many other great books like these, too many to mention.

Also familiarize yourself with the EEOC site as well as that of the Dept of Labor or Labor Commissioner for your state. And one more thing... get used to documenting EVERYTHING.

Editorial Review:

This text is designed to introduce students to ethical decision-making in the criminal justice system. Its greatest strengths are its balanced coverage of 1) all three segments of the CJ system-police, courts, and corrections-and 2) both philosophical principles/theories and hands-on criminal justice issues and applications.

Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home (book with CD-Rom & Audio)

Ilona Bray, Alayna Schroeder, Marcia Stewart

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Editorial Review:

Insider tips and advice to help you get the right place at the right price!

If you're ready to say goodbye to landlords and laundromats, Nolo's Essential Guide to Buying Your First Home will help you find the right place to invest in -- and have fun doing it.

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Civil Procedure

Stephen C. Yeazell

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Editorial Review:

The famously teachable casebook, Civil Procedure, by Stephen C. Yeazell, features a flexible organization, expertly selected and edited cases, a manageable length, and eminently readable introductions and notes.

The leading casebook for Civil Procedure features:

a clear and straightforward writing style

a helpful overview of the procedural system

techniques for statutory analysis explained in plain English

a manageable overall length

a flexible organization that adapts to a variety of teaching approaches

a comprehensive Teacher s Manual with detailed teaching guidance, case analyses, and sample syllabi

a companion CD with complete text of all of the cases in the book

an Annual Statutory and Case
Supplement available for adoption
a Companion Website with additional teaching materials, including the full text of every case discussed in the book

Updated throughout, the Seventh Edition incorporates the restyled rules from the December 2007 Amendments to the FRCP, as well as material on recent developments, including:

contemporary pleading systems and problems, incorporating recent Supreme Court pleading cases

discovery: spoliation of evidence, E-discovery, sanctions

resolution without trial: emerging trends in judicial regulation of arbitration

former adjudication: preclusion & arbitration

Always a pleasure to teach from, Civil Procedure gives you perfect teaching flexibility, even providing a complimentary CD with the complete text of the cases. At the same time, you know you are totally supported by a Teacher s Manual that provides day-to-day guidance for structuring each class, instructions and analyses of every case, and a selection of sample syllabi to choose among.

Property Law: Rules, Policies, and Practices

Joseph William Singer

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Best law textbook on property you can get! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

If you are looking for a property text, you cannot do better than this book. It is not only the best property textbook published right now, it is one of the finest legal textbooks I have had to read.

The writing is clear and comprehensible, and the cases are well chosen: provocative while remaining good examples of Black Letter Law.

My property class was the only section using Singer's book, and we are the only section that actually enjoyed the area of property law. This was not a coincidence.

This is the best casebook I have ever read. 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

The true greatness of this casebook is that it renders hornbooks and other guides superfluous. It is a truly great casebook in an area of the law I thought would bore me to death. It is so good it makes some of those New Jersey cases almost palatable.

You don't need a professor to teach you property law ... 5 out of 5 stars.
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... all you need is this textbook! Logically organized, comprehensive and explains complex concepts in a down-to-earth, easy-to-understand manner. The emphasis on the policy behind the rules is also extremely helpful. You won't need to buy a commercial outline with this book.

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: 2008-2009 Educational Edition

West

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Editorial Review:

This edition is an affordable, all-purpose resource designed to support any classroom text. It provides the new rules and amendments and comprehensive restyle that took effect December 1, 2007. In addition, this edition provides up-to-date versions of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, Rules of Procedure of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, habeas corpus rules, Rules of the Supreme Court of the United States, Federal Rules of Evidence, the U.S. Constitution, and proposed rule amendments.

Modern American Remedies: Cases and Materials (Casebook Series) (Casebook Series)

Douglas Laycock

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Get your textbooks here! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book as it was required reading for my Remedies class in law school. Amazon had the lowest price, the book was in stock, and it shipped quickly. And it was exactly the right book - the info on the web site provided all the details I needed to make sure I was ordering the right edition (as these things change quite frequently in law books). Everyone should seriously consider getting all their textbooks here.

America's Courts and the Criminal Justice System

David W. Neubauer

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Misleading 3 out of 5 stars.
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The book I recieved is in very good shape, however it is not the book I wanted. There was no picture, and I assumed, since it said "new" that it was the newest edition. I recieved the 8th edition of the boook instead of the 9th, which is the one i needed.

Editorial Review:

Open this book and step into America's court system! What's it like to be a judge? A prosecutor? A defense attorney? With Neubauer's best-selling book, you'll find out! This fascinating and well-researched text gives you the sense of being in the courthouse-of what it is like to work in and be a part of the system. This concept of the courthouse "players" illustrates each person's important role in bringing a case through the court process. Throughout the text, Neubauer highlights not only the pivotal role of the criminal courts within the criminal justice system but also the court's importance and impact on society as a whole.

Professional Responsibility, Problems and Materials (University Casebook Series)

Thomas D. Morgan, Ronald D. Rotunda

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Continuing the tradition that has made it a leader in its field, this casebook uses problems to provide an overview of lawyers' professional responsibility. One of the most rapidly changing fields in American law, professional responsibility sees new issues, rules and cases each year, all of which are covered in this book. The Tenth Edition has been carefully designed to be familiar to long time users, and accessible to new ones. It continues its tradition of offering the most usable and up-to-date course materials to teach legal ethics and the law governing the practice of law.Despite maintaining its familiar structure, the treatise covers all current developments in the field. This Edition covers the new American Bar Association's Model Rules of Judicial Conduct, which were extensively rewritten in 2007, as well as the ABA's Model Rules of Professional Conduct, which were also extensively rewritten in 2002; the American Law Institute's Restatement Third, The Law Governing Lawyers; and issues raised by federal agencies that play an important role in determining lawyer standards. Other notable changes include more citing authorities; fewer black letter questions and issues in each problem to allow more time for discussion and questions; and the integration of readings into discussion materials.

Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment

Anthony Lewis

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From one of the country's most esteemed experts on the First Amendment and the author of the classic Gideon's Trumpet, an eloquent essay on the importance of freedom of expression.

More than any other people on earth, Americans are free to say and write what they think. The media can air the secrets of the White House, the boardroom, or the bedroom with little fear of punishment or penalty. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just fourteen words in our most fundamental legal document: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment to the Constitution.

In Lewis's telling, the story of how the right of free expression evolved along with our nation makes a compelling case for the adaptability of our constitution. Although Americans have gleefully and sometimes outrageously exercised their right to free speech since before the nation's founding, the Supreme Court did not begin to recognize this right until 1919. Freedom of speech and the press as we know it today is surprisingly recent. Anthony Lewis tells us how these rights were created, revealing a story of hard choices, heroic (and some less heroic) judges, and fascinating and eccentric defendants who forced the legal system to come face-to-face with one of America's great founding ideas.

ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation, 3rd Edition

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Adequate 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Our professor required this manual because he is one of the authors. It's a citation manual. Quite unremarkable. It's adequate.

This book... 3 out of 5 stars.
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...smells like cat pee.

And my cat totally didn't pee on it!

I'm pretty burned out on researching. Please keep me up to date with how helpful this review is!

The Best Citation Manual! 5 out of 5 stars.
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The ALWD Citation Manual is better than the Bluebook because of its organization and its clarity. It truly is much easier to use than the competition.

AWLD Citation Manuel 1 out of 5 stars.
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Don't order this citation manuel if you need it anytime soon. After it was more than a week overdue from the promised date, I had to get it from a university bookstore.

Decent Learning Tool, but Ultimately Duplicative Since No One Uses It In Practice 3 out of 5 stars.
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The whole point of ALWD is that it is a teaching tool. Great. While ALWD might be a little bit easier to start learning the rules, style guides are not necessarily the most clear cut and easy to navigate resources on the planet. What you gain in terms of usability early on in learning legal style methods, you lose later on when you have to learn Blue Book / Red Book / California Style Guide which you will need to master even moreso than you had to learn ALWD for your legal writing classes.

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ALWD is supposed to be a citation system which is well suited to teaching, but there is nothing really in the style guide which lends itself to this. I should echo other people's comments that you will never see anything in ALWD format out in the real world. ALWD format will also confound services like West/Lexis's BriefCheck services.

Ultimately, remember that you will end up having to learn at least one other legal style, if not two, if your school uses ALWD. Enjoy!