SOC 3730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Karla Homolka, Crown Attorney, Public Inquiry

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3730
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

Wrongful convictions illegally, can happen within the crown, judge etc. human error, bias, misinformation. place, what should be in place etc: examine models. Miscarriages of justice and decision made) or taking victims seriously (areas where there is higher levels of racial minorities and poverty) the system if this occurs especially in cases that have a lot of attention. Persons who work within it such as prosecutors and judges. trying to get persons off the street. Wrongful convictions questions: legitimacy of cjs into question. Canada, there is an over representation of african americans and aborginals. Effect within their own case (ex: karla homolka) bringing into question reliability: false confessions. More likely to be wrongfully convicted for these three: Drug offences (police doing their own proactive investigation, likely racial minorities) Consequences: prison, loss system, volatility anger, aggression, fueled with their encounter with the justice, capital punishment push to take it away due to wrongful convictions, continued sense imprisonment.