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social science subjects > sociology > crime and deviance > reasonable suspicion

... > sociology > social problems > social problems encyc > crime and deviance > reasonable suspicion

... > political science > American politics and society > Fourth Amendment > Fourth Amendment issues > reasonable suspicion

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reasonable suspicion

Definition

A legal concept that structures and directs police procedure regarding the stopping and frisking of citizens. The standard of reasonable suspicion arose from the 1968 U.S. Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio. [Source: The SAGE Glossary of the Social and Behavioral Sciences; Reasonable Suspicion]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/reasonable_suspicion

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