SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Forensic Science, Due Process, Restorative Justice

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Miscarriages of justice: 1) wrongful convictions in court process, from defence attorney, prosecutor or from judge, 2) failure to respond/protect police level. Police not responding to calls from the public about crime, not taking victims seriously. Tends to happen in areas with high number of racial minorities: policy changes wrongful convictions can help change policy. Questions based on investigation and gives us an idea of what should be changed: examine models crime control and due process. Assumption that in higher levels of crime control, there will be higher levels of wrongful convictions, includes breaking the rules to get criminals off the streets. More towards due process, we will have more guilty people who are set free. Good place to be is a balance between both models. Particular people who work within cjs will be questioned (i. e. prosecutors: dna using dna to investigate crime. Today, warrants can be written for police to collect evidence.