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Criminal Procedure Law Police Issues and the Supreme Court

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ISBN-10: 0763793116

ISBN-13: 9780763793111

Edition: 2013

Authors: Frances P. Bernat, Nicholas Godlove

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This resource provides readers with essential cases and analysis on criminal procedure. It focuses on the processing of suspects and offenders from police identification and investigation through arrest and pretrial processes. This book is useful to police, criminal justice students and criminal justice faculty looking for a text with clear writing and practical examples of the application of important constitutional principles for criminal procedure. Criminal Procedure Law: Police Issues and the Supreme Court provides an in-depth analysis of contemporary problems such as: racial profiling, detention of enemy combatants, interrogations of young children suspects, searches of private…    
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Book details

List price: $110.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC
Publication date: 11/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 258
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Frances P. Bernat is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. She holds both a Juris Doctorate and a Ph.D. in Political Science. Her research focuses on current legal issues that impact on women as victims and offenders, and on the intersection of race and class on crime and punishment.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Criminal Trials
Key Points
Introduction
The Constitution and Its Amendments
Criminal Procedure
Interpreting the Constitution
Organization of the Book
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Police Criminal Investigations
Key Points
The Criminal Justice Process and Policing
Steps in the Criminal Justice Process
Need to Understand Criminal Procedure Law
Privacy Rights and People, Places, and Things
Contemporary Issues: State Access to Computer Accounts, Cell Phones, and Text Messages
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Stops and Frisks
Key Points
The Right of Ptivacy and Police Stops
Reasonable Suspicion to Stop a Person
Car Stops
Frisks and Plain Feel Rule
Contemporary Issues: Criminal and Racial Profiling
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Arrests
Key Points
The Fourth Amendment and Arrests
The Fourth Amendment Requirement for a Warrant
DNA and Other Items Identifying a Person
Public Schools and Youth
Use of Force
Contemporary Issues: Detentions and Enemy Combatants
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Confessions and Interrogations
Key Points
The Fifth and Sixth Amendments
The Requirements as Articulated in Miranda v. Arizona
The Right to Remain Silent and to Counsel
Contemporary Issues: St. Johns, Arizona, 8-Year-Old Boy Interrogated without Miranda
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
The Fourth Amendment, Search Warrants, and Warrantless Searches
Key Points
The Right of Privacy and the Requirement for a Warrant
The Exclusionary Rule
Use of Known and Anonymous Informants
Limits to the Exclusionary Rule
Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
Suing the Police for a Violation of the Fourth Amendment
Contemporary Issues: Deadly Force and Warrants
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Warrantless Searches of People and Their Immediate Area and Things
Key Points
Searches of People and the Fourth Amendment
Search of a Person Incident to Arrest
Search of Youth in Schools
Search upon Booking and Inventory Searches
Contemporary Issues: Airport and Border Screenings
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Searches of Houses and Real Property
Key Points
Fourth Amendment and Searches of Homes
Consent Entry Searches
Exigent Entry and Searches of a Home
How and When Can Search Warrants Be Effectuated?
Open Fields Rule
Contemporary Issues: Protective Sweeps of a Home
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Warrantless Searches and Privacy of Personal Effects
Key Points
Warrantless Searches of People's Personal Effects
Plain View
Automobile Searches
Abandonment of Property
Contemporary Issues: Roadside Car Searches of African Americans
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Right to Counsel in Pretrial Stages
Key Points
The Sixth Amendment's Right to Counsel
Arrests and the Right to Counsel
Sixth Amendment and Pre- and Post-Indictment Lineups, Showups, and Photo Arrays
Contemporary Issues: Guantanamo Bay and Military Tribunals
Summary
Glossary
Additional Readings
Index