Title: The Fourth Amendment in flux : the Roberts court, crime control, and digital privacy /
Authors: Gizzi, Michael C.,; Curtis, R. Craig,
Year: 2016
Subjects: United States.; United States.; Searches and seizures United States Cases.; LAW / Constitutional.; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions.; Searches and seizures; United States
Abstract: "When the Founders penned the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, it was not difficult to identify the "persons, houses, papers, and effects" they meant to protect; nor was it hard to understand what "unreasonable searches and seizures" were. The Fourth Amendment was intended to stop the use of general warrants and writs of assistance and applied primarily to protect the home. Flash forward to a time of digital devices, automobiles, the war on drugs, and a Supreme Court dominated by several decades of the jurisprudence of crime control, and the legal meaning of everything from "effects" to "seizures" has dramatically changed. Michael C. Gizzi and R. Craig Curtis make sense of these changes in The Fourth Amendment in Flux. The book traces the development and application of search and seizure law and jurisprudence over time, with particular emphasis on decisions of the Roberts Court.
Contents: Explaining the Roberts court's Fourth Amendment jurisprudence -- Setting the stage -- The Burger court and the rise of a jurisprudence of crime control -- The war on drugs and the triumph of the Rehnquist court -- The Roberts court in flux -- The jurisprudence of crime control on the Roberts court -- Reining in the excesses of crime control -- Toward the future.