Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributor List
- Introduction: Appreciating Bill Stuntz
- Part I The Political Economy of Substantive Criminal Law
- Part II Police Investigations
- 5 The Accidental Feminist
- 6 The Distribution of Dignity and the Fourth Amendment
- 7 Why Courts Should Not Quantify Probable Cause
- 8 DNA and the Fifth Amendment
- Part III Emotion, Discretion, and the Judicial Role
- Index
- References
6 - The Distribution of Dignity and the Fourth Amendment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Contributor List
- Introduction: Appreciating Bill Stuntz
- Part I The Political Economy of Substantive Criminal Law
- Part II Police Investigations
- 5 The Accidental Feminist
- 6 The Distribution of Dignity and the Fourth Amendment
- 7 Why Courts Should Not Quantify Probable Cause
- 8 DNA and the Fifth Amendment
- Part III Emotion, Discretion, and the Judicial Role
- Index
- References
Summary
There is a great deal to admire about Bill Stuntz's work. It is smart, hardheaded, almost always surprising, and so right. I often find when I read his articles that I have a smile on my face. It is one of those expressions you find yourself making when thinking to yourself, “Man, I wish I wrote that.”
Of the many occasions I found myself thinking this while reading Bill's work, one is prominent. That occasion is the first time I read The Distribution of Fourth Amendment Privacy. There, Bill wrote the following:
There seems to be widespread agreement on the twin propositions that (1) Fourth Amendment law should protect privacy and (2) the protection should tend to increase as the privacy invasion increases.…These obvious propositions may be wrong.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Political Heart of Criminal ProcedureEssays on Themes of William J. Stuntz, pp. 123 - 130Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011