Criminal Procedure For The Criminal Justice Professional

by Ferdico, John N.; Fradella, Henry F.; Totten, Christopher D.

• ISBN13: 9780495095477
• ISBN10: 0495095478
• Edition: 10th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-17
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

With CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROFESSIONAL, Tenth Edition, you'll have everything you need to develop a comprehensive understanding of the legal rights, duties, and liabilities of criminal justice professionals. This timely text presents a uniquely practical, real-life approach to criminal procedure, which makes it an ideal reference book as you begin your career. Using clear and concise statements of criminal procedure law and understandable explanations of the reasoning behind the law, authors John N. Ferdico, Henry F. Fradella, and Christopher Totten clarify potentially confusing and obscure legal matters. Additionally, they reduce the complexity of criminal procedure law into simple, straightforward guidelines and recommendations, illustrated with interesting examples of actual cases.

Author Biography

Christopher D. Totten is an assistant professor of Criminology at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), where he acts as the faculty advisor for the Law and Society concentration and teaches numerous law courses.

Table of Contents

Framework for the Study of Criminal Procedure	p. 2
Individual Rights Under the United States Constitution	p. 2
Criminal Courts, Pretrial Processes, and Trials	p. 52
Basic Underlying Concepts: The Exclusionary Rule, Privacy, Probable Cause, and Reasonableness	p. 116
Search Warrants, Arrests, Stops, and Frisks	p. 182
Criminal Investigatory Search Warrants	p. 182
Administrative Searches, Special Needs Searches, and Electronic Surveillance	p. 246
Arrest	p. 304
Stops and Frisks	p. 360
Exceptions to the Search Warrant Requirement	p. 440
Searches Incident to Arrest and Protective Sweeps	p. 440
Consent Searches	p. 482
The Plain View Doctrine	p. 530
Search and Seizure of Vehicles and Containers	p. 578
Open Fields and Abandoned Property	p. 628
Criminal Procedure and the Fifth and Sixth Amendments	p. 674
Interrogations, Admissions, and Confessions	p. 674
Pretrial Visual Identification Procedures	p. 746
Glossary	p. 794
Select Bibliography	p. 810
Case Index	p. 816
Subject Index	p. 825
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