Ahranjani / Ferguson / Raskin Youth Justice in America

2. 2. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4833-1946-9
Verlag: SAGE Publications
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, EPUB

Youth Justice in America, Second Edition engages students in an exciting, informed discussion of the U.S. juvenile justice system and fills a pressing need to make legal issues personally meaningful to young people. Written in a straightforward style, the book addresses tough, important issues that directly affect today's youth, including the rights of accused juveniles, search and seizure, self-incrimination and confession, right to appeal, and the death penalty for juveniles. Focusing on cases that relate to the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the subject matter comes alive through a wide variety of in-book learning aids.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ahranjani, Maryam

Ferguson, Andrew G.

Raskin, Jamin B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Ahranjani, Maryam

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.

Raskin, Jamin B.

Jamin B. Raskin is professor of constitutional law and the First Amendment at American University Washington College of Law and founder of its Marshall-Brennan Fellows Program, which places law students in public high schools to teach the We the Students constitutional literacy course. A former assistant attorney general for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Raskin is an active public interest lawyer, defending the rights of political expression and participation for both adults and young people. He is also the author of Overruling Democracy (2003) and dozens of law review articles, op-eds, and essays on constitutional law.

Ferguson, Andrew G.

Andrew Ferguson (L.L.M., Georgetown Law Center, JD Univ. Pennsylvania Law School), Associate Professor of Law at the David A. Clarke School of Law, University of the District of Columbia, teaches courses on criminal law, procedure, and evidence. He is author of Why Jury Duty Matters: A Citizen’s Guide to Constitutional Action (NYU Press).  He is co-chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section’s Student Activities Committee, which runs the “Citizen Amicus Project,” a national project to involve law students in current Supreme Court cases. Previously, Professor Ferguson worked as a supervising attorney at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where he represented adults and juveniles in cases ranging from homicide to misdemeanor offenses.