Power orientation view
simplistic world view (strong or weak)
How do people tend to control their surroundings in the power orientation
by dominating activities and people to counteract their feelings of impotence and powerlessness
how are people motivated through power motivation?
Immediate gratification and powerlessness
What is super optimism and what is the result?
People develop and attitude of invulnerability and convinces themselves, they will escape the consequences, and they get away with their crimes. However, when they do get caught it’s a heavy fall.
What is the attitude of super optimisim?
○ I won’t get caught before I won’t now
What is the entitlement perspective?
feeling above the law because how life treated them badly, so they feel entitled to commit a crime- creatibe in how they grant themselves permission to commit crime
sense of ownership and privelelge
What is sentimentality
Terry v Ohio- describe case
When is stop and frisk legal
○ Safety of community
Safety of officer
What does the officer need to do a stop and frisk?
Stop and frisk in NYC
chooses who they want to STOP and frisk, mainly minorities
○ Gave a written record to the person who they stopped and frisked as a false sense of security
Mapp v Ohio case
exclusionary rule
fruit of the poisonous tree- illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in court
Mapp v Ohio concluded
exclusionary rule
Search and seizure amendment
Foruth Amendment
Two parts to search and seizure
○ Reasonable cause
Warrants clause
What do you not need a search for?
abandoned property, open fields, fly-overs, pretext stops, roadblock searches and voluntariness
What is this an example of: Dropped cell phone while the criminal was running away
abandoned property
What 3 things constitute an arrest?
-Custody
- Deprives a person of freedom
For having allegedly committed a criminal offense and have evidence for a crime
Search warrant
Order issued by judge directing officers to conduct a search of specific premises for SPECIFIC objects
Arrest warrants
Order issues by judge to arrest a particular individual
probable cause, neutral & detached magistrate, particularity
Neutral and detached magistrate
Judges signature serves a as check on the officers decisions concerning who should be arrested and/or searched
particularity