U.S.+Government-Law

Introduction:
Our middle school is a magnet school for law. We have a courtroom classroom and starting next year will have a mini-school for Law. Each year the CCD collection focuses on an aspect of U.S. government and/or law and adds materials in that area. Areas of concentration in the past have been immigration law, the Constitution and Bill of Rights, civil rights and juvenile law. This year the area of evidence used in a court proceeding was the focus. Although the major emphasis of the collection has been on law, materials on U.S. government are also added. Most of the materials are on a middle school reading level and interest.

Questions for Inquiry:
1.What was the original intent of the 4th Amendment as written by the Founding Fathers? 2. What was the first Constitutional challenge to the 4th Amendment? What changes in society, science and government caused an examination of the intent of the Amendment? 3. What advances in evidence collecting and processing have changed Constitutional interpretations of the 4th Amendment?

Keywords:
U.S. Constitution, Law, U.S. Government, Judiciary

Subject Headings:
Politics and government, Law, Constitutional amendments, Evidence (Law)

Dewey Decimal Classification(s):
320, 321,323, 324, 328, 340, 342-349, 347, 363.25

Reference:
__The Constitution and its amendments__, New York: Macmillan Reference USA, c1999. REF 342.73C (4 volume set)

Non-fiction:
__Computer investigation__ / Bauchner, Elizabeth. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 363.25 BAU __Criminal psychology and personality profiling__ / Esherick, Joan. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 614 ESH

__DNA analysis__ /Hunter, William. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 614 HUN

__Document analysis__ / Bauchner, Elizabeth. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 363.25 BAU

__Entomology and palynology : evidence from the natural world__ / Walker, Maryalice. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 363.25 WAL

__Explosives and arson investigation__ / Ford, Jean (Jean Otto). Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 363.25 FOR

__Fingerprints, bite marks, ear prints : human signposts__ / Libal, Angela. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 363.25 LIB __Forensic anthropology__ / Libal, Angela. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006.614LIB

__Forensics in American culture : obsessed with crime__ / Ford, Jean (Jean Otto). Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 363.25 FOR __Freedom from unfair searches and seizures__, Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press/Thomson/Gale, c2006. 345.73 FRE __Mark and trace analysis__ /Hunter, William. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 363.25 HUN

__Pathology__ / Walker, Maryalice. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 614 WAL

__Solving crimes with physics__ / Hunter, William. Philadelphia : Mason Crest Publishers, c2006. 363.25 HUN

Fiction:

Videos/DVDs:
__Students' right to privacy Drug testing and the Fourth Amendment__ (VHS)