Youth Justice in America (eBook)

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