Berman and Bracci's Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law, 2d
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The new Step-by-Step Guide to Criminal Law, 2nd Edition, is an interactive workbook designed to prepare students to pass criminal law exams in law school and on the bar exam. This user-friendly guide now includes multiple choice strategy and practice along with original content on essay exam strategy and practice.
What readers appreciate most about the entire Step-by-Step Guide (or “SBS”) Series is how it presents the most heavily tested legal rules in a format that mirrors the way those rules arise as issues in typical testing fact patterns. Rule statements are set out in easy-to-memorize form, with a breakdown of element components and logical steps showing how to apply this law to new facts.
For help with outlining and preparing for exam, review relevant chapters in the SBS Guide to Criminal Law throughout the semester as you cover particular concepts. Make certain that you know how to break into understandable steps each major aspect of criminal law including homicidal offenses (murder, manslaughter, felony murder, etc.), non-homicidal crimes against people (batter, kidnapping, etc.), crimes against structures (burglary, arson, etc.), crimes against personal property (theft crimes), and inchoate or preliminary crimes (attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy).
Beyond law school criminal law courses, the SBS Guide to Criminal Law is a perfect supplement for bar exam preparation. Read it in your final year of law school, before bar review, to refresh rules you know but forgot and learn rules you never understood well. And, use it as a companion for additional clarification during bar review to help get extra points on criminal law questions.
For law school success, complete the assigned reading, listen carefully to your criminal law professor, and take practice exams in the format you will be tested in. Fluency with the legal terminology is an essential part of understanding the reading, lectures, and performing well on exams. This Step-by-Step Guide includes exercises and an easy-to-use glossary to help you learn and memorize definitions of key criminal law terminology.
Among the most important steps to success is application. It’s all about application! Knowing it your head is great, but the goal now is to use that knowledge to do well on exams, and later to use your knowledge and skills to do well in practice.
The application part of success requires the hard work of deep learning, engaging with problems to test your knowledge, and working to gain a strong command of all testable topics in the context of fact scenarios. To help with this, the SBS Guide to Criminal Law provides:
These offer varying formats to train, practice, and master the skill of applying relevant rules to new and different fact patterns.
The Step-by-Step Series is here to help take the mystery out of 1L and lead you to success in law school and on the bar exam. In addition to SBS Criminal Law, read the Step-by-Step Guide to Torts and the Step-by-Step Guide to Contracts.
What readers appreciate most about the entire Step-by-Step Guide (or “SBS”) Series is how it presents the most heavily tested legal rules in a format that mirrors the way those rules arise as issues in typical testing fact patterns. Rule statements are set out in easy-to-memorize form, with a breakdown of element components and logical steps showing how to apply this law to new facts.
For help with outlining and preparing for exam, review relevant chapters in the SBS Guide to Criminal Law throughout the semester as you cover particular concepts. Make certain that you know how to break into understandable steps each major aspect of criminal law including homicidal offenses (murder, manslaughter, felony murder, etc.), non-homicidal crimes against people (batter, kidnapping, etc.), crimes against structures (burglary, arson, etc.), crimes against personal property (theft crimes), and inchoate or preliminary crimes (attempt, solicitation, and conspiracy).
Beyond law school criminal law courses, the SBS Guide to Criminal Law is a perfect supplement for bar exam preparation. Read it in your final year of law school, before bar review, to refresh rules you know but forgot and learn rules you never understood well. And, use it as a companion for additional clarification during bar review to help get extra points on criminal law questions.
For law school success, complete the assigned reading, listen carefully to your criminal law professor, and take practice exams in the format you will be tested in. Fluency with the legal terminology is an essential part of understanding the reading, lectures, and performing well on exams. This Step-by-Step Guide includes exercises and an easy-to-use glossary to help you learn and memorize definitions of key criminal law terminology.
Among the most important steps to success is application. It’s all about application! Knowing it your head is great, but the goal now is to use that knowledge to do well on exams, and later to use your knowledge and skills to do well in practice.
The application part of success requires the hard work of deep learning, engaging with problems to test your knowledge, and working to gain a strong command of all testable topics in the context of fact scenarios. To help with this, the SBS Guide to Criminal Law provides:
- Short-answer Test Yourself questions and answer explanations to determine where your understanding is clear and where you must do additional work.
- Numerous full-length essay questions with sample answers
- Multiple choice questions (MCQ) and MCQ strategy, and
- Short-answer questions.
These offer varying formats to train, practice, and master the skill of applying relevant rules to new and different fact patterns.
The Step-by-Step Series is here to help take the mystery out of 1L and lead you to success in law school and on the bar exam. In addition to SBS Criminal Law, read the Step-by-Step Guide to Torts and the Step-by-Step Guide to Contracts.