NCJ Number
195319
Date Published
2002
Length
831 pages
Annotation
This textbook is designed to offer the student of constitutional law a broad overview of the field.
Abstract
This textbook on constitutional law provides professors, instructors, and police departments an overview of the many components involved in criminal procedure. The authors provide a discussion of the history, structure, and content of the United States Constitution in the first chapter. The text then moves on, in its first section, to cover such topics as freedom of speech, authority to detain and arrest, use of force issues, search and seizure, eavesdropping and interception of communications, interrogations and confessions, compulsory self-incrimination, right to counsel, trial and punishment issues, Federal criminal and civil remedies for unconstitutional conduct, and finally constitutional and civil rights in the government workplace. Section two of the text reviews judicial decisions in the area of constitutional law. Section three contains the appendix, which offers the text of the United States Constitution, including the Bill of Rights and its amendments. A study to accompany this textbook is also available, see NCJ-195320. Glossary, index