Full Description
Packed with examples from real-world situations faced by today's law enforcement professionals, Del Carmen/Hemmens' CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: LAW AND PRACTICE, 11e, gives you a practical and authoritative look at the most current guidelines in criminal procedure. Comprehensive and accurate without burdening the reader with irrelevant details, the text includes cutting-edge coverage of the law as it relates to arrests, searches and seizures, vehicle stops, use of force, interrogations and line-ups. It also discusses current topics such as use of force, vehicle searches, stop and frisk, racial profiling and seizures of text/email messages. Interesting case briefs, sample police forms, hypothetical cases and coverage of the most recent Supreme Court decisions keep the text as relevant as ever. Its reader-friendly presentation makes law enforcement concepts easy to understand and apply.
Contents
1. The Court System, Sources of Rights, and Fundamental Principles.
2. Overview of the Criminal Justice Process.
3. Probable Cause and Reasonable Suspicion.
4. The Exclusionary Rule.
5. Stop and Frisk and Stationhouse Detention.
6. Arrests and Use of Force.
7. Searches and Seizures of Things.
8. Motor Vehicle Stops, Searches, and Inventories.
9. Plain View, Open Fields, Abandonment, and Border Searches.
10. Lineups and Other Means of Pretrial Identification.
11. Confessions and Admissions: Miranda v. Arizona.
12. Basic Constitutional Rights of the Accused during Trial.
13. Sentencing, the Death Penalty, and Other Forms of Punishment.
14. Legal Liabilities of Law Enforcement Officers.
15. Electronic Surveillance and the War on Terror.
