With CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROFESSIONAL, Tenth Edition, you'll have everything you need to develop a comprehensive understanding of the legal rights, duties, and liabilities of criminal justice professionals. This timely text presents a uniquely practical, real-life approach to criminal procedure, which makes it an ideal reference book as you begin your career. Using clear and concise statements of criminal procedure law and understandable explanations of the reasoning behind the law, authors John N. Ferdico, Henry F. Fradella, and Christopher Totten clarify potentially confusing and obscure legal matters. Additionally, they reduce the complexity of criminal procedure law into simple, straightforward guidelines and recommendations, illustrated with interesting examples of actual cases.

John N. Ferdico holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and a B.A. in Sociology from Dartmouth College. He is a former Assistant Attorney General and Director of Law Enforcement Education for the State of Maine. Other books he has published are FERDICO'S CRIMINAL LAW AND JUSTICE DICTIONARY and the MAINE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER'S MANUAL. Ferdico currently writes and runs a legal publishing company in Bowdoinham, Maine.Henry F. Fradella earned a Ph.D. from Arizona State University, a J.D. and an M.F.S. (Masters in Forensic Science) from The George Washington University, and a B.A. in psychology from Clark University. Dr. Fradella is a chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at California State University-Long Beach, where he also teaches a variety of legal and forensic courses. He has authored the texts FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY and KEY CASES, COMMENTS, AND QUESTIONS ON SUBSTANTIVE CRIMINAL LAW; published in key journals such as the JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION, the CRIMINAL LAW BULLETIN, CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY REVIEW, the FEDERAL COURTS LAW REVIEW, and the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CRIMINAL JUSTICE; and is listed in WHO'S WHO AMONG AMERICAN TEACHERS and WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN LAW.Christopher Totten has a J.D. and L.L.M. (Masters in Law) from Georgetown University, is a member of the State Bar of Maryland, and has worked as an attorney and client advocate at a number of commercial law firms. He is an assistant professor of Criminology at The College of New Jersey, where he acts as the faculty advisor for the Law and Society concentration and teaches numerous law courses. He has published in key journals such as the JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY and the BERKELEY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.

Part One: FRAMEWORK FOR THE STUDY OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE. 1. Individual Rights Under the United States Constitution. 2. Criminal Courts, Pretrial Processes, and Trials. 3. Basic Underlying Concepts: The Exclusionary Rule, Privacy, Probable Cause, and Reasonableness. Part Two: SEARCH WARRANTS, ARRESTS, STOPS, AND FRISKS. 4. Criminal Investigatory Search Warrants. 5. Administrative Searches, Special Needs Searches, and Electronic Surveillance. 6. Arrest. 7. Stops and Frisks. Part Three: EXCEPTIONS TO THE SEARCH WARRANT REQUIREMENT. 8. Searches Incident-to-Arrest and Protective Sweeps. 9. Consent Searches. 10. The Plain View Doctrine. 11. Search and Seizure of Vehicles and Containers. 12. Open Fields and Abandoned Property. Part Four: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND THE FIFTH, SIXTH, AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENTS. 13. Interrogations, Admissions, and Confessions. 14. Pretrial Vision Identification Procedures.