Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues

Front Cover
Routledge, Feb 11, 2015 - Social Science - 290 pages

Legal Guide for Police, 10th edition, is a valuable tool for criminal justice students and law enforcement professionals, bringing them up-to-date with developments in the law of arrest, search and seizure, police authority to detain, questioning suspects and pretrial identification procedures, police power and its limitations, and civil liability of police officers and agencies. Including specific case examples, this revised edition provides the most current information for students and law enforcement professionals needing to develop a modern understanding of the law.

Authors Walker and Hemmens have added introductory and summary chapters to this edition, which aid readers in understanding the context, importance, and applicability of the case law. All chapters have been updated to reflect U.S. Supreme Court decisions up to and including the 2013 term of court. Among the important new cases covered are: Bailey v. United States (2013), Berghuis v. Thompkins (2010), Kentucky v. King (2010), Maryland v. King (2013), and Michigan v. Bryant (2011). A helpful Appendix contains the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment, and a Table of Cases lists every case referenced in the text.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Results of Failure to Comply with Constitutional Mandates
11
Chapter 3 Police Power and Limitations
33
Chapter 4 Police Authority to Detain
41
Chapter 5 Law of Arrest
61
Chapter 6 Search and Seizure with a Warrant
105
Chapter 7 Search and Seizure without a Warrant
129
Chapter 8 Questioning Suspects
183
Chapter 9 Pretrial Identification Procedures
223
Chapter 10 Taking the Law to the Streets
239
Appendix The Bill of Rights First Ten Amendments to the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment
249
Table of Cases
253
Index
267
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues
Jeffery T. Walker,Craig Hemmens
Limited preview - 2015
Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues
Jeffery T. Walker,Craig Hemmens
No preview available - 2014
Legal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues
Jeffery T. Walker,Craig Hemmens
No preview available - 2015

Common terms and phrases

10th Cir 9th Cir accused action admissible applied Arizona arrest warrant authority automobile checkpoint citation committed conduct confession constitutional rights contraband Court explained Court noted criminal activity criminal justice custody defendant defendant’s detain detention determining drugs established example exclusionary rule executed exigent circumstances facts federal court felony Fifth Amendment fingerprints Fourteenth Amendment Fourth Amendment frisk identification illegal Illinois inadmissible interrogation inventory search investigation issue justified knock-and-announce law enforcement officers lawful arrest liability lineup magistrate Miranda rights Miranda warnings misdemeanor offense officer’s peace officer person plain view police officers premises probable cause procedure protection purposes questioning reasonable grounds reasonable suspicion reliability right to counsel search and seizure search incident search warrant seized self-incrimination sobriety checkpoints statements statute stop-and-frisk Supp Supreme Court held Supreme Court ruled suspect Terry Terry stop tion trial U.S. Supreme Court United valid vehicle violate the Fourth waiver warrantless weapons

About the author (2015)

Jeffery T. Walker is Professor and Chair in the Department of Justice Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was formerly at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, where he served as Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice. Walker has written 10 books and more than 70 journal articles and book chapters. He has obtained more than $9 million in grants from the Department of Justice, National Institute of Drug Abuse, and others. He is a past President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Editorial experience includes service as Editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and Journal of Critical Criminology. Walker also served as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), conducting major felony crime investigations. Walker received his B.S. in Personnel Management and Computer Science from the University of Arkansas in 1984, and his M.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock, in 1988. He completed his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University in 1992.

Craig Hemmens is chair and professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Washington State University. He has previously served as Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Missouri State University, as well as Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at Boise State University. He is a past President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Professor Hemmens has published 19 books and more than 100 articles on a variety of criminal justice-related topics. He holds a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University. In 2016 he was awarded the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) presitigious FOUNDER'S AWARD for outstanding contributions to criminal justice education and ACJS.

Bibliographic information

TitleLegal Guide for Police: Constitutional Issues
AuthorsJeffery T. Walker, Craig Hemmens
Edition10, illustrated, revised
PublisherRoutledge, 2015
ISBN1317533100, 9781317533108
Length290 pages
Subjects › 

Social Science / Criminology
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan