Frank Schmalleger is director of the Justice Research Association, a think tank focusing on issues of crime and justice. He is author of a number of book on criminal justice and here turns his talents to the O.J. Simpson trial--the Trial of the Century. Reader will relive the trial from the jurors' perspectives with this powerful, fair, and heart-wrenching book.

Transcripts of live trial coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial.

In Trial of the Century, acclaimed author Frank Schmalleger provides a self-contained, accessible account of the criminal and judicial proceedings of the O.J. Simpson double murder trial. The text draws from the unrivaled documentation of this event to guide students through the workings of America's criminal justice system. Schmalleger also reaches beyond the crime scene and court room to explore the psyche of American society as it relates to the trial and the events surrounding it.

One of America's leading appeal lawyers, Alan Dershowitz was the man chosen to prepare the appeal should O.J. Simpson have been convicted. Now Professor Dershowitz uses this case to examine the larger issues and to identify the social forces - media, money, gender, and race - that shape the criminal-justice system in America today. How could one of the longest trials in the history of America's judicial system produce a verdict after only hours of jury deliberation? Was this really a case of circumstantial evidence?