It has long been speculated that mistaken eyewitness identification plays a major role in the wrongful conviction of innocent individuals. A growing body of research now supports this speculation, indicating that mistaken eyewitness identification is responsible for more convictions of the innocent than all other factors combined. This essay serves to reveal the importance of eye witness memory in the legal system. To begin with, eye witness testimony assists in law enforcement. Feldman (2009), eye witness and victims are sometimes better able to recall the details of a crime when hypnotized.
Furthermore, the discretion of police can play a large role in the investigation of criminal offences; however, it can lead to certain individuals in society being targeted. The amount of power that police currently have is enough to successfully achieve justice and to sufficiently protect the community. It is imperative to the safety of society that police have a large degree of power in criminal investigations. The New South Wales police force under the Law Enforcement (Power and Responsibilities) Act 2002 is given special legal powers to enable them to effectively carry out their duties. The ‘7:30 report – Sydney shootings spark call for expanded police powers’ supports the importance of police having a high degree of authority in criminal matters.
First and for most, to be able to identify the suspect and be able to contact them for further information or hearing information we must obtain their personal information. The other reason police get certain specific information form suspects is for statistical purposes. They use the FBI’s uniform crime report to form probabilities of which races were most likely to commit which crimes, where are they going to commit those crimes and what time of day will they possible commit them. The problem with race when determining guilt or innocence or whether to adjudicate a juvenile is that no matter what the crime when it comes to minorities most feel they are treated unfairly. They think that they system has it in for them and is biased to their ethnicity.
Identify the principal agents who expose white collar crime in contemporary society. What factors motivate people to expose such crime, and what factors inhibit them from doing so? What specific policy measures can be adopted to encourage exposure of white collar crime? In regards to high level or corporate white collar crime the most likely method of exposure will come from an informer or whistle-blower from within the business or institution itself. Outside sources can contribute to investigations by uncovering or suspecting wrong doing.
Both the crime control model and the due process model have a common goal in seeing that these goals are met, but there are differences in the ways that these goals are met, but these models tend to be in conflict of one another. Proponents of the crime control model endorse an all out assault on criminal activity. “War on Crime” plays a major role in this model, it
General Strain Theory “Strain theories state that certain strains or stressors increase the likelihood of crime. These strains lead to negative emotions, such as frustration and anger.” (Agnew& Scheverman, 2010) This theory really focuses on who someone deals with certain stressors happening in their life. If someone is angry will they handle the situation in a calm/ prosocial way or a violent/criminal way? I find this theory interesting because stress plays a role in everyone’s daily life, and I am a strong believer in there being a reason for everyone’s actions. I think that a lot of criminals engage in criminal behavior because they are dealing with some pretty intense stuff and they use crime as a way to handle the situation they are in.
The fact that officers know that illegally obtained (but true) evidence will quite possibly be thrown out, and therefore dangerous criminals will be freed, will encourage them to follow the proper procedures. (Woodfin, 2009) In addition, there are already several exceptions to requiring a warrant, such as “stop-and-frisk”, airport and school searches, voluntary searches, and emergency situations (Scheb, 2008) While these arguments supported the continued use of the exclusionary rule, there are also many argue against its value to our criminal justice system. One of the most
Everyone has the capacity to commit crimes but not everyone has the mental capacity or criminal capacity to understand the crime committed. Criminal capacity has a profound impact on the defense process. How can previous court case data support the connection between criminal convictions and criminal capacity? First a little explanation of justification. The definition for justification is a type of legal defense in which the defendant admits to committing the act in question but claims it was necessary to avoid some greater evil (Schmallege, Hall, & Dolatowski, 2010).
Disparity and Discrimination Essay This paper will compare and contrast disparity and discrimination as they relate to the criminal justice system. The discussion will be supported with examples from law enforcement practices, court procedures, corrections populations. When you first look at discrimination and disparity one may believe they were similar but that is further from the truth. When people see a great number of blacks or Hispanics arrested for many drug related incidents it may seen discrimination had a lot to do with it whether it occur at the start of an arrest, during the justice procedure, or during the sentencing process. Although it seem very easy to come to that conclusion; it is vital that people have a receptive mine and look further for the reason of disparity instead of believing what they see from the exterior.
If sex offenders commit a wide variety of offenses, responses from both a public policy and treatment perspective may be no different than is appropriate for the general criminal population (Quinsey, 1984). However, a more specialized response is appropriate if sex offenders tend to commit principally sex offenses. The purpose of this paper is to examine the critical