Author: John N. Ferdico

With CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROFESSIONAL, Twelfth Edition, you’ll have everything you need to develop a comprehensive understanding of the legal rights, duties, and liabilities of criminal justice professionals–from individual rights to arrest, search and seizure, confessions, pretrial identifications, trials, and appeals. This readable, up-to-date text presents a uniquely practical, real-life approach to criminal procedure, making it an ideal reference book as you begin your career. Using plain English–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.

Part I: FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. 1. Individual Rights Under the United States Constitution. 2. Criminal Courts, Pretrial Processes, and the Exclusionary Rule.? 3. Basic Underlying Concepts: Property, Privacy, Probable Cause, and Reasonableness.? Part II: SEARCH WARRANTS, ARREST, STOPS, AND FRISKS. 4. Criminal Investigatory Search Warrants.? 5. Searches for Electronically Stored Information and Electronic Surveillance.? 6. Administrative and Special Needs Searches.? 7. Arrests, Searches Incident to Arrest, and Protective Sweeps.? 8. Stops and Frisks.? Part III: EXCEPTIONS TO THE SEARCH WARRANT REQUIREMENT. 9. Consent Searches.? 10. The Plain View Doctrine and Special Needs Searches. 11. Search and Seizure of Vehicles and Containers.? 12. Open Fields and Abandoned Property.? Part IV: INTERROGATIONS, IDENTIFICATIONS, TRIALS, AND POST-CONVICTION REMEDIES. 13. Interrogations, Admissions, and Confessions.? 14. Pretrial Visual Identification Procedures.? 15. Criminal Trials, Appeals, and Postconviction Remedies.? Glossary. Select Bibliography. Case Index. Subject Index.

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