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The Miranda ruling : its past, present, and future / Lawrence S. Wrightsman and Mary L. Pitman.
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Title:The Miranda ruling : its past, present, and future / Lawrence S. Wrightsman and Mary L. Pitman.
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Author/Creator:Wrightsman, Lawrence S.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Pitman, Mary L.
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Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: KF9625 .W75 2010 (LC)
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Miranda, Ernesto--Trials, litigation, etc.
Right to counsel--United States.
Confession (Law)--United States.
Police questioning--United States.
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Description:xiii, 190 pages ; 25 cm.
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Series:American Psychology-Law Society series.
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Summary:Synopsis: Where did Miranda go wrong? The purpose of this book is to identify and describe four problems with the implementation of the Miranda decision and to suggest remedies in order to have it achieve its original purpose. The four problems identified in the book are: 1. The justices, in placing restrictions of the questioning of suspects, limited these rights only to those suspects who were "in custody." The term "in custody" is vague-legally vague as well as vague to the layperson. It permits the police to question suspects without giving them their Miranda rights in those settings where it is unclear whether custody is present. 2. The Miranda warnings may not be fully understood by many suspects. There is no country-wide standardization of what is said; there are literally thousands of different versions of "the" Miranda warnings in use by different police departments in the United States. 3. Police training manuals, while recognizing the right to a "Miranda warning," have developed many ways to circumvent giving the warnings or ignoring a response in which a suspect does decide to remain silent or ask for an attorney. 4. In the 40 years since the Miranda law was established, the Supreme Court and lower courts have made decisions eroding their application. Can the original goal of the authors of the Miranda law be salvaged? This book examines the state of interrogations and the state of the law before the Miranda decision was made, the purposes and nature of the decision, and proposes recommendations for reinstituting the original goals.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780199730902 (cloth : alk. paper)
0199730903 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Contents:The public image of Miranda and why it is incomplete
What led up to the Miranda decision?
The decision in Miranda v. Arizona
Limitations of the original decision
Problems with the comprehension of the Miranda rights among vulnerable suspects
Supreme Court decisions since Miranda
Police reactions to the Miranda requirements
The future of the Miranda ruling.