CJS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Police Misconduct, Precrime
Document Summary
Factors that may lead to failures of justice. There are many different reasons why failures of justice occur, and can occur at each stage of cjs such as police investigation, pre-trial and trial. Investigators create a theory and only pay attention to evidence that suits that theory and become unwilling to consider an alternative cause. It may affect police, forensic scientists and prosecutors. Including misuse of authority, evidence planting, failure to disclose all evidence, misrepresented evidence, misleading juries. Innocent people confessing to crimes under duress or fabricated. Incarcerated people may use this to lower their sentence. When eyewitnesses identify the wrong person committing the crime. Where scientists and other experts make mistakes in their analysis of evidence, or giving opinions not supported by the evidence or unreliable. Science plays a significant role in a large number of failures of justices. Faulty collection and/or testing of crime scene samples. Use of unproven theories and assumptions as "expert evidence"
