Constitutional Law and the Criminal Justice System

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Help your students decipher the complexities of our Constitution and the criminal justice system with this best seller! J. Scott Harr and Kären M. Hess have taken the most complex of material and made it into the most student-oriented and manageable text for the course, helping students develop a complete understanding of the key issues related to our Constitution and the criminal justice system. With approximately 225 summarized cases fully integrated into the text, students are introduced to pertinent and influential cases in a format that is not intimidating?the authors use plain language versus legal language. Harr and Hess focus primarily on the Fourth Amendment (reasonable search and seizure) and Fifth Amendment (double jeopardy, testifying against oneself) to the U.S. Constitution, as these are the most relevant to criminal justice issues. The Third Edition continues to offer students a broader picture of the laws that influence our society, and, at the same time, helps students master these important concepts through a unique integrated learning system?the authors' trademark Four-Point Approach.

About the Author
J. Scott Harr has been employed in various areas of the law for more than 28 years. He has been a social worker and a youth worker. For over 11 years he served as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer and Public Safety Director for a suburb of the Twin Cities and served as a police officer for two other cities before that. In addition, Scott has served as a firefighter and emergency medical technician. He is licensed as a lawyer, police officer and private investigator, and founded "Scott Harr Legal Investigations" in 1985. Having taught as community faculty at Normandale Community College, and served as resident faculty at Metropolitan State University School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, he is presently the Criminal Justice Chair for the School of Human Services at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota.


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Harr (criminal justice, Concordia University-Saint Paul) and Hess (Normandale Community College) have added updated material on recent Supreme Court decisions to this text for an introductory course on constitutional law or search and seizure. The text is designed to fall between basic civics books and law school-level casebooks, and features plain language and instructions and practice on reading court opinions. Sections cover foundations for understanding constitutional law, the guarantees of the Constitution to citizens, the constitutional amendments influencing the criminal justice system, and the remaining amendments. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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