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Police and the criminal law / Edward Eldefonso, Alan Coffey & James Sullivan.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Pacific Palisades, Calif. : Goodyear Pub. Co., c1972.Description: 238 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0876207069
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.7305 22 ELD
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Contents;

Chapter 1: The nature of criminal law
Criminal law

Chapter 2: Enforcement and criminal law
The philosophy of criminal law enforcement

Chapter 3: The law of arrest, search, and seizure
Arrest procedures
Search and seizure
Constitutional protections and their significance to the law enforcement officer

Chapter 4: Procedure after arrest
Station house procedure
Bail
Arraignment
etc.

Chapter 5: Definition of crime: Essential elements of criminal offenses
The common law system
Crime defined
Principles of criminal law
The limits of effective law enforcement
etc.

Chapter 6: Common law offenses
Preliminary offenses
Crime against persons
Crimes against property

Chapter 7: Criminal evidence
Persuasion
Preservation of evidence
Eyewitness
etc.

Chapter 8: Criminal defense
The role of behavioral science
Sociological explanation of crime
Physiological explanation of crime
Criminal defenses

Chapter 9: Interrogations and confessions
History
Voluntary confession
Right to counsel
etc.

Chapter 10: Separation of power
Federal court system
State court system
Jurisdiction
Appeal procedures
Sources of law

Chapter 11: Constitutional limitations
Introduction
Due process
Rules of exclusion
Police brutality
etc.

Index : p. 235-238.

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