Searches and Seizures

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Cynthia Lee Klappentext This thorough and timely anthology on the Fourth Amendment provides an overview of the most important aspects of this crucial amendment's doctrine and scholarly criticisms of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence relating to the amendment. Dividing the work into three parts, the author begins by providing historical background and a summation of the debate over the meaning of Fourth Amendment. In the next section, the work focuses on the doctrinal underpinnings of the Fourth Amendment, providing both description and critique of the U.S. Supreme Court's current search and seizure jurisprudence. It examines problems with the Court's definition of a "search" and "seizure" and the thorny subject of racial and ethnic profiling, among other topics. The concluding section examines the future of the Fourth Amendment in light of new and emerging technologies and the war on terror. This user-friendly, well-organized anthology will be of great value to students and scholars of the law, and anyone with an interest in the balance between individual rights and governmental power. Zusammenfassung Shows that our pervasive and gnawing sense of dissatisfaction is mainly self-inflicted - as long as our society emphasizes individual needs and wants as life's primary focus, we will never find happiness.

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Edited by Cynthia Lee

Klappentext

This thorough and timely anthology on the Fourth Amendment provides an overview of the most important aspects of this crucial amendment's doctrine and scholarly criticisms of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence relating to the amendment. Dividing the work into three parts, the author begins by providing historical background and a summation of the debate over the meaning of Fourth Amendment.

In the next section, the work focuses on the doctrinal underpinnings of the Fourth Amendment, providing both description and critique of the U.S. Supreme Court's current search and seizure jurisprudence. It examines problems with the Court's definition of a "search" and "seizure" and the thorny subject of racial and ethnic profiling, among other topics.

The concluding section examines the future of the Fourth Amendment in light of new and emerging technologies and the war on terror.

This user-friendly, well-organized anthology will be of great value to students and scholars of the law, and anyone with an interest in the balance between individual rights and governmental power.

Zusammenfassung
Shows that our pervasive and gnawing sense of dissatisfaction is mainly self-inflicted - as long as our society emphasizes individual needs and wants as life's primary focus, we will never find happiness.