Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

Journal Article Link 3.1: Olson, E. (1971). Student Rights—Locker Searches. NASSP Bulletin, 55(352): 46-53.

There have been four recent judicial decisions in locker search cases. They make it possible to say with some certainty what the courts will consider "reasonable" under the Fourth (search and seizure) Amendment. Here is a succinct statement of the procedures a school administrator should employ in conducting legal locker searches.

1. Summarize the author’s main point(s) in just a few sentences.    
2. What potential problems does the author not address with his/her own work?
3. How would you address potential problems and/or future research recommendations that are addressed by the author?
4. Do you see any evidence of bias in the authors work or writing? If so, what is it and why do you think it is there?
5. How has this article expanded your knowledge on the subject and/or challenged your preconceptions of the subject?

Journal Article Link 3.2: Kritzer, H. M., Richards Mark J. (2005). The Influence of Law in the Supreme Court’s Search-and-Seizure Jurisprudence. American Politics Research, 33(1): 33-55.

In this research note/replication, we apply the construct of jurisprudential regimes as described in our recent article to the jurisprudential area of search and seizure. Given the centrality of this area of Supreme Court decision making in the core studies supporting the attitudinal model, replicating our analysis of the jurisprudential regime construct in this area provides an important test of the concept. Our results produce strong support for the proposition that post-Mapp decision making can be separated into distinct regimes, with a set of important cases decided in 1983-1984 demarcating the regimes. The predictors of decisions in the two periods are consistent with the types of changes one would expect the regime shift to produce. Our findings challenge the attitudinalists’ proposition that there is at best negligible statistical evidence that law influences Supreme Court decision making.

1. Summarize the author’s main point(s) in just a few sentences.
2. What potential problems does the author not address with his/her own work?
3. How would you address potential problems and/or future research recommendations that are addressed by the author?
4. Do you see any evidence of bias in the authors work or writing? If so, what is it and why do you think it is there?
5. How has this article expanded your knowledge on the subject and/or challenged your preconceptions of the subject?

Journal Article Link 3.3: Call, J. E. (2000). The United States Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment: Evolution from Warren to Post-Warren Perspectives. Criminal Justice Review, 25(1): 93-117.

In the last 25 years, the U.S. Supreme Court's treatment of Fourth Amendment issues has undergone a shift in philosophy that has resulted in a conservative body of search and seizure law that is very different from the more liberal search and seizure law that was developed by the Warren Court in the 1960s. This article examines the most important Fourth Amendment cases decided by die Ware Court and by the post-Warren Court (1975-2000). The article concludes that the post-Warren Court (a)has been very pro-police in its approach to Fourth Amendment issues, (b) have developed a body of conservative case law in this area while over turning only one of the controversial Warren Court decisions, (c) has often made only minor changes to Fourth Amendment jurisprudence that have nevertheless conveyed a message that constitutional restraints on the police have been relaxed, and (d) has been consistent in its conservative approach to Fourth Amendment issues.

1. Summarize the author’s main point(s) in just a few sentences.
2. What potential problems does the author not address with his/her own work?
3. How would you address potential problems and/or future research recommendations that are addressed by the author?
4. Do you see any evidence of bias in the authors work or writing? If so, what is it and why do you think it is there?
5. How has this article expanded your knowledge on the subject and/or challenged your preconceptions of the subject?