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Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Foundations of Criminal Justice - Week 4 Notes

center-of-attention
police socialization process.
selection, training, and providing recreational activities for officers
due process
systems models





  • Can public opinion about the death penalty be shaped by external forces given the ingrained nature of most people’s perceptions on the subject and exposure to conflicting information in the subject? Why do public officials support or condemn capital punishment?
  • Does capital punishment work? What are the myths we hold about the subject? Why do we believe what we believe, and where are those myths created? What if it works? What if it doesn’t? Ultimately what should we as a society decide, and who should make the decision?
  • How should the system balance the needs of the victims and the community against the possibility that someone sentenced to death is innocent? How do we balance the needs for justice for the victims against the concerns we have about acting in a humane civilized way? Where does our responsibility lie?
  • Are the thousands of correctly convicted criminals justification for our justice system and are the few innocent people who are wrongly convicted an acceptable price to pay to maintain our system? Does the legalized killing of even a single person, guilty or innocent, reduce our claims of being civilized?


http://www.talkleft.com/story/2004/11/23/742/81390/crimepolicy/Truth-In-Sentencing-Laws-Exposed
hyperbole re: poor poor criminals

http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/410470_FINALTISrpt.pdf#search=%27Truth%20in%20Sentencing

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162936/posts

http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65315

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/07/09/Tampabay/CSI__the_real_scene.shtml
Many viewers become jurors. Prosecutor Bruce Bartlett, the chief assistant in local State Attorney Bernie McCabe’s office, says attorneys call it “The CSI effect.” He asks potential jurors if they watch the show to see if they’re aware that it usually takes months to get DNA samples processed, not minutes.

http://www.gvpt.umd.edu/lpbr/subpages/reviews/Fisher1103.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plea/interviews/alschuler.html
"You have two people who've committed the same crime. They have the same background, and one is going to get twice as severe a sentence as the other because he's exercised the right to trial. I think it's a perfectly designed system to produce conviction of the innocent. "



cop myth
http://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publishing/insights_law_society/insights2_2.authcheckdam.pdf
"Legal culture and popular culture, in effect, reinforced each other, but only within limits. "

"Public opinion has much to do with administration of justice "

http://mises.org/daily/5836/

code duello


"Criminality is a time invariant personality trait, namely self-control"
http://www.coll.mpg.de/pdf_dat/2012_04online.pdf

http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001000
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/217555.pdf

http://robinlittlefield.blogspot.com/2013/03/dead-man-balking-do-death-row-inmates.html

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com
http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/pambianco.htm

http://deathpenalty.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001000


low control
http://ncbio.org/nordisk/arkiv/levander2.pdf
http://wcr.sonoma.edu/v07n3/41.arneklev/arneklev.pdf


Do policemen hold different myths about their profession then the community does?


http://myeclassonline.com/re/DotNextLaunch.asp?courseid=9302927&userid=23797063&sessionid=37ae8dcdc8&tabid=GhCbmxRwQ8IBFBY+QjlbZra8qKloNeWF3jdxW0fqVRJjI6C9YF6XBNQrTf9nHU/lfFXQq5wafXxZhC7qw7SY+g==&sessionFirstAuthStore=true&macid=DLT13IWOoPDrzY5p2pLRAAF+JKjZTdfoWLfFs+JOzp9z07E40PwmmjDPeBUCGGWimUStlL3WxBzQCzwHTIcdCadw9x1dLxiXQ6BaJxvXH+F9CiawEqUT4KS+bwblVaVnfUW9vEK7F8lNF4jJ+Pb25tNyoajo5+It3PZJ3s8R28DYrqU3QWtBJnpaZfi6G4KcghdZ7Q3c8orsBe+LGGS3NyLJKU+WSaaa1ht7F0aMlMaP5lroe66CSIcGEN8hlWnV

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