Quantifying Katz

Download or read book Quantifying Katz written by Weston J. Morrow and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: In 1967, Katz v. United States ruled that the protections of the Fourth Amendment's Search and Seizure Clause apply only when an individual's subjective expectation of privacy is objectively reasonable. In criminal cases, judges determine this without the benefit of data that could inform the judiciary about how society conceptualizes privacy which, in turn, would provide an empirical basis for deeming an expectation of privacy "objectively reasonable." The present study provides such data by " asking participants to rate on a Likert scale the degree of privacy they thought should be accorded to various areas under situations drawn from the fact-patterns of leading Fourth Amendment cases. The socio-legal and public policy implications of the results are explored.