Even though I think flogging is humiliating and painful, it is clearly a much easier and cheaper way of locking up a criminal rather than putting them in prison, and that we should consider bringing it back for non-violent crimes. In Jacoby’s article, "Bring Back Flogging," he talks to the readers about the flaws of today's criminal justice system and tries to persuade them to bring back flogging as a punishment for some crimes and other instances. Jacoby’s thesis is directly in his title “Bring Back Flogging”. His title is an attention grabber and it also makes the us think about his essay. He starts his essay with a knowledge on the puritans justice system, and how they dealt with criminals back in the old days.
Another major point is that our justice system shows more sympathy for criminals than it does victims. DNA testing and other methods of modern crime scene science can now effectively eliminate almost all uncertainty as to a person's guilt or innocence. Prisoner parole or escapes can give criminals another chance to kill. This contributes to the problem of overpopulation in the prison system. Has one ever thought of the victim’s family when the whole court cases are going on?
Gun Control There are new laws and regulations being made all the time in the United States. Politicians think that by making these new laws it will fix their current problems. This is the case right now with the problems they are having with gun control. There is another side to this as well, if well behaved citizens want to carry a concealed weapon they can and this could help prevent bad occurrences from happening. If the right people carry guns it would make for a safer community.
From the studies they found that the amount of precise information recollected was significantly higher when using CI. Research done by Stein and Memon (2006) in Brazil showed that it produced better forensically rich information that to the common police interview. Despite all the benefits of cognitive interview the use of this is not widespread in UK police departments. 1999, Kebbel et al found many officers that were trained in using cognitive interview testified that they did not have the time to conduct in what they believed was a good CI. This was most likely due to being unable to conduct all the parts of cognitive interview necessary for the witness to recall
TRACY ANTWI-BOASIAKO COGNITIVE INTERVIEW The cognitive interview is a method of interviewing based on techniques to improve memory recall. The questioning techniques are used by the police to help to retrieve information from a witness. The 4 techniques include recalling information in a different narrative order where witnesses are encouraged to recall backward from the end to the beginning, recalling information from different perspective where witnesses are asked to describe what others might have seen, witnesses are asked to recall information during an incident into details, even that they think might not be vital and also witnesses are asked about their general life on the day of incident such as the feeling, weather etc. The interviewer tries to mentally reinstate the environmental and personal context of the crime for the witness. The use of the cognitive interview was encouraged by Geislemen study to set out to investigate the effectiveness of the cognitive interview.
The Cognitive interview is a procedure designed for use in police interviews that involve witnesses. There were 2 main forces behind the development of the CI. The first one was the need to improve the effectiveness of police interviewers when questioning witnesses. The second was to apply the findings of psychological research to this area. Fisher and Geiselman developed an interview technique which was based on proven psychological principles conceiving effective memory recall.
Both the person accused of the crime and the accuser would give speeches based on their sides of the story. The individual with the best argument and delivery would determine the outcome of the case. This origin is the source of the two modern usages of the word forensic – as a form of legal evidence and as a category of public presentation. In modern use, the term "forensics" in the place of "forensic science" can be considered correct as the term "forensic" is effectively a synonym for "legal" or "related to courts". However the term is now so closely associated with the scientific field that many dictionaries include the meaning that equates the word "forensics" with "forensic science".
The British Crime Survey also includes crimes which are not reported to the police, therefore is an important alternative to police records and provides criminologists, the police, the courts, the media and anyone else who has an interest with the statistics, two different types of data: Firstly trends on crime over time chartered, Details are compiled from offenders who are eventually found guilty or cautioned; details gathered include sex and the age of the offender. Information is gathered on the “Known offender”, in this case the “Typical offender”, (Maguire 1997). Official crime
Event-interviewing similarity Memory of an event such as a crime is enhanced when the psychological environment at the interview is similar to the environment at the original event. The interviewer should therefore try to reinstate in the witness’s mind the external (e.g. weather), emotional (e.g. feelings of fear) and cognitive (e.g. relevant thoughts) features that were experienced at the time.
For Example, in criminal Justice the forces group could be from a high crime area with women who have lost child due to the crime in their neighborhoods. (Bachman, R., & Schutt, R. K. (2011) The third qualitative method is Intensive interviewing; it involves direct interaction between the researcher and a respondent or group. The researcher or interviewer ask open-ended questions which is usually unstructured questioning that deal with in-depth information that requires the participants to express their feeling and share experiences and perception on a topic that is research. (Bachman, R., & Schutt, R. K. 2011) The researchers are free to shift the discussion in any route they want to. Thus, unstructured interviewing with is particularly useful for discovering a subject generally.