Searches, Seizures, and Warrants - A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution

An inherent tension resides in the Fourth Amendment's strictures on unreasonable searches and seizures. We want it to protect our privacy from government intrusion, yet we want the police to do whatever is required to solve crime. Greater controls on the power of the police provide more privacy protections to citizens. Reduced controls on police actions provide less privacy protection to citizens. Bloom explores this tension as he guides the reader to through the history and relevant Supreme Court decisions that have shaped the current state of Fourth Amendment law.

List of contents

Series Foreword by Jack Stark
Foreword by John Garvey
Introduction
Analysis
History
Exclusionary Rule
Government Action
Applicability of the Fourth Amendment Expectation of Privacy
Arrest and Criminal Searches - Justification - Probable Cause
Stops - Justification - Reasonable Suspicion
Administrative Searches - Justification - Reasonable Standards
Warrants
Warrant Exceptions
Consent
Bibliographic Essay
Table of Cases
Index

About the author

ROBERT M. BLOOM is Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. He is the author of Ratting: The Use and Abuse of Informants in the American Justice System (Praeger, 2002), and Criminal Procedure (2nd edition, 1996), and Constitutional Criminal Procedure (1992).

Product details

• Authors: Robert Bloom, Bloom Robert M.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2003
• EAN: 9780313314452
• ISBN: 978-0-313-31445-2
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Politics, Law, and Government: Law