The text is organized in four parts to provide a broad understanding of criminal procedures with a practical orientation. The first part contains chapters on individual constitutional rights, the criminal court system, and basic concepts of criminal justice (exclusionary rule, privacy, probable cause, and reasonableness). The second part includes chapters on arrest, search warrants, and probable cause. Chapters in the third part cover exceptions to the search warrant requirement, specifically stop and frisk, search incident to arrest, consent searches, the plain view doctrine, search and seizure of vehicles and containers, and open fields and abandoned property. Chapters in the fourth part deal with admissions, confessions, and pretrial identification procedures. References, tables, and figures