CRIM 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Factitious Disorder Imposed On Self, Voir Dire, United States Constitution
10 Feb 2017
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Week 9 chapter 12 and 13 and 14 notes. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. Sixth amendment to the united states constitution: size of the jury, voting requirements, burden of proof, requirement for a non-biased jury. Gender: j. e. b. v. alabama ex rel. (1994) Physical and demographic attributes sometimes considered important: age, gender, occupation, ethnicity, race, physical attractiveness. Attitudes toward the death penalty (witherspoon v. illinois, 1968) The battered woman syndrome (bws: stage 1: tension-building stage, stage 2: acute battering stage, stage 3: contrite and loving behavior. Rape trauma syndrome (rts: acute phase, long-term phase. Factitious disorder by proxy (or munchausen syndrome by proxy) Title vii of the civil rights act. Discrimination manifests itself in three basic forms: overt discrimination, subtle discrimination, covert discrimination. Same-sex sexual harassment (oncale v. sundowner offshore services, inc. , 1998)
