The Legal Rights of the Convicted

Barbara Belbot, Craig Hemmens, Michael R. Cavanaugh

• Publisher: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781593328320
• eBook ISBN: 9781593328337
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

The Legal Rights of the Convicted makes a unique scholarly contribution to an important and emerging field. It is a comprehensive examination of the legal rights of convicted offenders. Belbot and Hemmens do more than simply discuss court cases and legal doctrines. They provide both the historical and political context in which the decisions were rendered. The text is especially good at "helping students appreciate the prison environment and how the legal issues that prisoners raise are impacted by that unique setting. The text introduces students to the place where law intersects with corrections and has cross appeal to students of corrections, law, and the sociology of law. This textbook incorporates a number of distinctive and innovative features, including a focus on current issues in corrections law, a discussion of recent scholarship/research on current corrections law, a discussion of the historical antecedents of constitutional corrections law, and a full discussion of the legal issues associated with community corrections, the fastest growing area in corrections law and practice. Several of these features are not covered in the existing corrections textbooks. I recommend it highly and without any reservations." -- Joan Petersilia, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, Stanford Law School