Engaging students throughout the process of learning career competencies is the goal of Criminal Law and Procedure for the Paralegal: A Systems Approach, Third Edition. Students are challenged to enhance their legal reasoning, critical thinking, and problemsolving skills by applying them to realistic case scenarios, analysis problems, electronic and traditional research exercises, and to numerous drafting, interviewing, discovery, and other typical paralegal tasks. The text also addresses the human element in the practice of criminal law, including the accompanying rewards and pitfalls. Ethical concerns and relevant performance standards, so often related to the human element, are generously covered in Chapter 2 and throughout the text
