CJ 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fourth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Cesare Beccaria, Terry Stop

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 100
• Professor: Douglas Klutz

Document Summary

Amendment search : terry v. ohio (1968, based on a reasonable suspicion, an individual can receive a stop and frisk . *** terry stop - applies to traffic stops as well: motor vehicle exception, allows the search of a motor vehicle without a search warrant (still have to have probable clause, minor traffic violations are not considered probable cause. *** tort - civil wrong (think lawsuits!: quantify = 51% guilty. ***compensatory damages - compensation for wrongs done in a civil trial; usually small. ***punitive damages - punish an individual or group of people to get them to reform their bad behavior. The demonic perspective of crime: dominant theory of crime up until the mid 1700s, crime was said to be the result of supernatural forces. Classical criminology: product of the age of enlightenment, first attempt to explain crime through scientific terms. *** cesare beccaria - classical criminologist with his work, an essay on crimes and.