SOC 3730 Study Guide - Final Guide: Dangerous Offender, Public Inquiry, Restorative Justice
17 Apr 2018
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Wrongful convictions: wrongful convictions, failure to respond/protect, when crimes aren"t investigated when it is brought to the police"s attention. Policy changes: aims to reduce the number of wrongful convictions. Legitimacy of cjs: the legitimacy is questioned when wrongful conviction numbers gets too high. Crime control: push for more investigations, evidence that had be obtained illegally used to be allowed. Eyewitness error: good predictor of misidentification. Erroneous forensic science: evidence is contaminated, human error, people make decisions when they don"t have the correct scientific background. Use of jailhouse informants: convicted criminal provides information to get something in return. False confessions: people don"t believe that people wont confess to a crime they didn"t commit, but they do. Usa exonerations (2017: looked at 1900 cases, african americans overall were more likely to be wrongfully convicted, a) murder (african americans 7x more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than white people)
