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MindTap Criminal Justice, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Samaha's Criminal Law, 12th Edition

Joel Samaha

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MindTap Criminal Justice, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Samaha's Criminal Law 12th Edition by Joel Samaha

Overview

MindTap for Samaha’s Criminal Law, 11th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie cutter into cutting edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.

MindTap for Samaha's Criminal Law, 12th Edition offers customizable content, course analytics, an accessible e-reader, and the single most applied learning experience available for this course—all within the learning management system you’re already using! MindTap for Criminal Law prepares students to make the kinds of reasoned decisions they will need to make as future professionals faced with real-world challenges. With its rich array of media assets—all of which are tagged by learning objective and Bloom’s Taxonomy level—MindTap is perfectly suited for today’s Criminal Law students, engaging them, guiding them toward mastery of basic concepts, and advancing their critical thinking abilities.

Joel Samaha

Joel Samaha is University Distinguished Teaching Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He received his B.A. (History), J.D., and Ph.D. (History) from Northwestern University and studied under 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, was named College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Teacher in 1974, and named University Distinguished Teaching Professor in 2007. 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.
  • Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
  • Hone students’ real-world decision-making skills with each chapter’s Career Scenario branching activities related to scenarios students might encounter in their future careers. The Career Scenario: Decide & Justify activities further development of critical thinking and writing skills and heighten the relevancy of chapter material.
  • Utilize MindTap’s part-ending Writing Skill Builder activities—which feature Basic Writing Aplia review exercises together with writing assignments centered on a unique Cengage decision-making framework—to further advance students’ writing skills.
  • Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
  • Track students in real time with the Progress App and adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
  • With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
  • Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
  • Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
  • Equip students to do better research with the Questia App, which features 24/7 online access to thousands of full texts and millions of academic journal and periodical articles along with a complete suite of organizational and productivity tools as well as instructional tutorials on such key topics as “Evaluating Sources” and “Paraphrasing Sources” to “Avoiding Plagiarism” and “Working with Documentation Styles”.
For each chapter of the book, students will find:
Learning Objectives: Chapter-opening learning outcomes spotlight what’s important.
Visual Summary: Interactive graphic that captures key concepts as a means of both previewing and reinforcing reading. The Visual Summary enables students to see how the key concepts fit together and get more information about each concept.
Reading: Convenient e-reader with integrated visuals and easily accessible notetaking, flashcard, ReadSpeak, and Questia apps.
Video Case: Timely news video connects course concepts with the real world. Students answer five multiple-choice questions relating the news story to the learning objectives in the chapter and receive feedback to help them make the right connections.
Career Scenario: Decide & Justify: Places the student in the role of a criminal justice professional. In the first part of the assignment, Career Scenario: Decide, students must make two reasoned decisions based on the information in the scenario and what they learned in the chapter, with the second decision they make being determined by their first decision. The concluding feedback helps tie the concepts in the scenario back to the learning objectives in the chapter. In the second part of the assignment, Career Scenario: Justify, students must write a short essay explaining the rationale behind their decisions. Rubrics provided.
Exam: 25 multiple-choice questions that test students on the key concepts in the chapter.
Additionally, every 3 or 4 chapters—at the end of each part in the text—students will find:
Writing Skill Builder: A 2-part activity consisting of the Writing Review—2–3 Aplia exercises on a specific writing skill—and the Writing Practice, an essay prompt where students apply the CJ decision-making model to a criminal justice scenario and practice the specific writing skill they just reviewed. Rubrics provided.
Finally, MindTap offers:
Careers in Criminal Justice App. A career rolodex, video interviews with practicing criminal justice professionals, career planning information, and much more.
Study Skill Builder. A quick review of basic study skills – managing time, using the textbook effectively, taking notes, etc.—in addition to brief writing and presentation guides.
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Each MindTap product offers the full, mobile-ready textbook combined with superior and proven learning tools at one affordable price. Students who purchase digital access can add a print option at any time when a print option is available for their course.

This Cengage solution can be seamlessly integrated into most Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and more) but does require a different ISBN for access codes. Please work with your Cengage Learning Consultant to ensure the proper course set up and ordering information. For additional information, please visit the LMS Integration site.

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  • ISBN-10: 1305639898
  • ISBN-13: 9781305639898
  • RETAIL $79.95

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  • ISBN-10: 1305577388
  • ISBN-13: 9781305577381
  • RETAIL $274.95

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Criminal Law

ISBN: 9781305577381
Providing the undergraduate criminal law course with a nationally acclaimed blend of analysis and illustrative cases, Joel Samaha's CRIMINAL LAW has been the textbook of choice among instructors for more than 30 years. Praised for his clear, concise, and engaging writing style, Samaha presents criminal law using a combined text/casebook approach that features methodical, careful explanations of traditional law categories as well as classic and contemporary cases. Packed with the latest topics and cases -- and accompanied by powerful teaching and learning resources, including the MindTap online learning platform -- the Twelfth Edition is even more effective in helping students understand and think analytically about the underlying principles and policies that specific cases illustrate.