Youth Justice in America - Brossura

Ahranjani, Maryam; Ferguson, Andrew G.; Raskin, Jamin B.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1483319164 ISBN 13: 9781483319162

Casa editrice: CQ Press, 2014

Riassunto

"Explores important issues related to juvenile justice and presents key cases, accompanied by expert commentary, involving the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments. Examines the constitutional rights and responsibilities of youths in America. Includes glossary, suggestions for further reading, and class exercises"--Provided by publisher.Explores issues related to juvenile justice and presents key cases, accompanied by expert commentary, involving the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments, and examines the constitutional rights and responsibilities of youths in America.

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L'autore:

Maryam Ahranjani (LLM, University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD, American University Washington College of Law) taught for ten years at the Washington College of Law and is a visiting professor of law at the University of New Mexico School of Law.  For five years, she served as associate director of the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project, which places law students across America in public high schools to teach constitutional literacy courses. Ahranjani is also the co-founder (with Andrew Ferguson) of the National Youth Justice Alliance, a non-profit organization that sends lawyers and law students to juvenile detention facilities to teach young people about Constitutional rights and responsibilities.

Contenuti:

Chapter 1: American Society, Crime, and the Constitution
The Constitution and Crime
“We the People” and the War on Drugs: Politicians and Their Families, Athletes, Entertainers
Criminal Justice: Not the End of the Story
The American System of Juvenile Justice
Chapter 2: What Is Crime?
Constitutional Limits on Government’s Power to Make Crimes
The Structure of Criminal Laws
Chapter 3: The Second Amendment, Youth, and Schools
The Second Amendment and Young People
The Second Amendment and Schools
Chapter 4: Fourth Amendment: Protection from Unreasonable Searches and Seizures
The Right to Be Left Alone
The Exclusionary Rule
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy
Fourth Amendment Search
Other Expectations of Privacy
What Is a Seizure?
Probable Cause and the Warrant Requirement
Chapter 5: Exceptions Swallow the Rule: Warrantless Searches
Exception 1: Emergency Circumstances
Exception 2: Plain View
Exception 3: Search Incident to an Arrest
Exception 4: Automobile Exception
Exception 5: Consensual Searches
Exception 6: Stop and Frisk
Exclusionary Rule Review
Chapter 6: School Searches
Search of Belongings
Drug Testing and After-School Activities
Drug Testing for All Students?
Strip Searches
Metal Detectors and the Constitution
Chapter 7: Fifth Amendment: Privilege against Self-Incrimination
The Screaming Eagle
Protections against Self-Incrimination
Juveniles and the Miranda Warnings
What Is Custody?
Pull Over, Jack
What Is Interrogation?
The Dangers of False Confession
Chapter 8: Sixth Amendment: Right to Counsel
The Right to Legal Counsel
Role of Legal Counsel
Role of the Defense
Right to Counsel for Juveniles
Right to Effective Counsel
Reality of Ineffective Counsel
A Quick Career Quiz
Chapter 9: Cruel and Unusual Punishment
The Death Penalty Today
The Death Penalty and Juveniles
Turning Over a New Leaf?
Juveniles and Life Imprisonment Without Parole
Chapter 10: The Future of Youth Justice
The Goals of Criminal Punishment
Record Prison Populations
The Racial Dynamics of the Criminal Justice System
Felon and Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
Gendered Offenders
Life in Prison without Parole

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CQ Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1483319164
• ISBN 13: 9781483319162
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 368