Revel for Criminal Law (Justice Series) -- Access Card

Revel™ is Pearson’s newest way of delivering our respected content. Fully digital and highly engaging, Revel offers:

Dynamic content designed for the way today's students read, think, and learn brings concepts to life

• Integrated within the narrative, interactives and videos empower students to engage with concepts and take an active role in learning. Revel's unique presentation of media as an intrinsic part of course content brings the hallmark features of Pearson's bestselling titles to life. Revel's media interactives have been designed to be completed quickly, and its videos are brief, so students stay focused and on task.
• Located throughout Revel, quizzing affords students opportunities to check their understanding at regular intervals before moving on.
• The Revel mobile app lets students read, practice, and study—anywhere, anytime, on any device. Content is available both online and offline, and the app syncs work across all registered devices automatically, giving students great flexibility to toggle between phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day. The app also lets students set assignment notifications to stay on top of all due dates.
• Revel’s writing functionality, available in select courses, enables educators to integrate writing—among the best ways to foster and assess critical thinking—into the course without significantly impacting their grading burden. Self-paced Journaling Prompts throughout the narrative encourage students to express their thoughts without breaking stride in their reading. Assignable Shared Writing Activities direct students to share written responses with classmates, fostering peer discussion. Essays integrated directly within Revel allow instructors to assign the precise writing tasks they need for the course.
• Highlighting, note taking, and a glossary let students read and study however they like. Educators can add notes for students, too, including reminders or study tips.

Superior assignability and tracking tools help educators make sure students are completing their reading and understanding core concepts

• Revel’s assignment calendar allows educators to indicate precisely which readings must be completed on which dates. This clear, detailed schedule helps students stay on task by eliminating any ambiguity as to which material will be covered during each class. When they understand exactly what is expected of them, students are better motivated to keep up.
• Revel’s performance dashboard empowers educators to monitor class assignment completion as well as individual student achievement. Actionable information, such as points earned on quizzes and tests and time on task, helps educators intersect with their students in meaningful ways. For example, the trending column reveals whether students' grades are improving or declining, helping educators to identify students who might need help to stay on track.
• Revel’s Blackboard Learn™ integration provides institutions, instructors, and students easy access to their Revel courses. With single sign-on, students can be ready to access Revel’s interactive blend of authors' narrative, media, and assessment on their first day. Flexible, on-demand grade synchronization capabilities allow educators to control exactly which Revel grades should be transferred to the Blackboard Gradebook.

Criminal Law provides a brief, affordable, visual introduction to the field

• Motivate students with engaging writing. The clear, easy-to-read, writing style is designed to tell a story about the criminal justice system. Students will be interested in the content, motivated to explore the topic further, and apply course content to everyday events.
• Appeal to visual learners. Engaging infographics, flow charts, pull-out statistics, and other visual elements flow with the text, provide context, and promote student engagement, recall, and understanding.

Provide the most current coverage possible. All chapters in the text reflect the most cutting-edge research in the field, including the latest statistics and the most current cases available at the time of publication.

• UPDATED: Help readers connect chapter material with current events. Chapter-opening stories are pulled directly from the headlines to give readers the most current view of criminal law possible. Updated or new stories are included in chapters 2, 4, 5, 9, and 13.
• EXPANDED: Deliberate course cases in the classroom. Court Decision boxes include interesting and relatable excerpts from real court decisions (either current or major Supreme Court decisions) so readers can examine instrumental court cases in greater depth and answer case analysis questions. This edition includes even more cases that go into greater detail so that instructors can examine these cases in the classroom or assign them as case briefs.
• Offer a contemporary take on criminal law. All of the latest hot-button issues in criminal law are covered, including recent controversial cases on the police use of force, cybercrime, terrorism, and more.
  • Chapter 1: A new section on the practical meaning of verdicts is included toward the end of the chapter, as is a new section on editing cases for readability.
  • Chapter 2: A new chapter-opening story is included as well as a new Court Decision, Glossip v. Gross, which is the 2015 Supreme Court case in regards to the death penalty. Figure 2.5 includes current data on the death penalty.
  • Chapter 3: A new Court Decision explores mistake of fact, People v. Lawson.
  • Chapter 4: A new chapter-opening story features the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Two new Court Decisions explore the castle doctrine and the defense of consent. A new section on federal deadly force policy is included and the deadly force section is expanded in light of recent events.
  • Chapter 5: The chapter-opening story and Figure 5.5 are updated and a new Court Decision on sociological excuse, United States v. Le, was added.
  • Chapter 6: A new figure summarizing modern and common law parties to a crime is included. The Complicity Limitations and Defenses section includes a new subsection on so-called nonproxyable offenses. A new Court Decision box toward the end of the chapter features a corporate vicarious liability case.
  • Chapter 7: A new Court Decision on conspiracy, U.S. v. Soto, is included and the Court Decision highlighting U.S. v. Schiro was removed.
  • Chapter 8: The section on physician-assisted suicide is updated and a new Court Decision on first-degree murder, Nibert v. Florida, on aggravating and mitigating circumstances is included.
  • Chapter 9: A new chapter-opening story features allegations of cyberstalking in the scandal involving former CIA director and four-star general, David Petraeus, a case that continues to unfold. Court Decision boxes are expanded and a new stalking case is featured toward the end of the chapter.
  • Chapter 10: A new Court Decision is included, United States v. Phillips, in which a computer science student hacked his own university’s computer system.
  • Chapter 11: A Court Decision on identity theft, U.S. v. Zuniga-Arteaga, is included and statistics and data in relation to identity theft are updated.
  • Chapter 12: In addition to being fully updated, the chapter features two new Court Decisions. The first, Helms v. State, involves the case of a man who was running an escort service and claimed to have no idea that prostitution was occurring. The second, United States v. Elie, involves violations of federal gambling laws. A section on gang activity is now included in the discussion of group criminality. Sections on sexting, polygamy, gambling, and drug laws are updated with the most recent developments.
  • Chapter 13: The chapter begins with a new story featuring the 2015 terror attack in San Bernardino. The PATRIOT Act section includes the latest developments and a new section on the USA FREEDOM Act. A new Court Decision box features United States v. Walli, a sabotage case. A new section on additional methods for targeting offenses against the state is included toward the end of the chapter.

Encourage active participation through critical-thinking features and learning tools

• Promote critical thinking with contemporary examples. Your Decision boxes present students with a hypothetical scenario that puts them in the position of the judge, jury, prosecutor, or defense attorney, giving them an opportunity to apply chapter content.
• Easily supplement your course with the Instructor’s Manual. The Instructor’s Manual contains author-drafted case briefs for all of the Court Decision features and sample answers to all of the Your Decision boxes. The case briefs provide a one-page summary of the key elements of the various Court Decisions, similar to the approach used by students in law school.
• Encourage students to go beyond memorization. Critical-thinking boxes explore applications, conflicts, and ethical issues involving the most current media news.
• Help students retain the major ideas of the chapter. Each chapter has clearly-identified Learning Outcomes that are directly tied to course content and are summarized at the end of each chapter. Students can easily locate explanations or find review material for a particular topic. Instructors can link the course learning outcomes to department and university learning outcomes.
• Focus students’ learning. Chapter Openers include a quote and a list of objectives. Each objective has an associated icon that appears in the related chapter section and also in the end-of-chapter material, making it easy to locate explanations or find review material for a particular topic.
• Spark interest and promote critical thinking about chapter concepts. Chapter Introductions present a current event or story related to chapter content followed by a discussion question.
• Encourage students to apply chapter concepts. Real-life case examples at the end of each chapter pose analytical discussion questions related to chapter content, promoting critical thinking and application of chapter concepts.
• Offer students a helpful, easy-to-use, study and review tool. The Chapter Summary Chart displays key information with embedded review questions.