When such cases are reported many people come to know about it and the victim is looked down upon. 5. Why are issues of harassment and bullying so difficult to resolve? (3 marks) Because freedom of speech issues clouds the distinction between harassment and comment. A lot of the time people are scared to give the bully away because the bully has threatened them, also it is also hard to detect a bully when the bullying is cyber because nobody has seen the bully do it face to
What specifically needs to be told to them is: their right to remain silent, anything they say could be used against them in court, right to counsel, right to have counsel appointed to them. If these things are not said anything said by the arrestee during the interrogation will not stand in court. IV. Reasons: Each arrestee should be aware of their rights because without knowing them officials can bully the defendants into self criminalizing themselves. If they know their rights and have an attorney present they are able to tell their story without fear, and effectively.
Describe one piece of research into false confessions [10m] One piece of research that looks into false confessions is Gudjohnsson (1990). The study is a case study about a 17 year old boy who confessed to crime and was subsequently imprisoned for one year. Later it was found out that his confession was false and he was not guilty of committing the crime. Gudjohnsson wondered how false confessions can arise. As a result of this Gudjohnsson suggests there are three types of false confessions: Voluntary confessions whereby the person freely confesses to a crime, Coerced Internalised confession which occurs when a suspect doesn’t remember where they were when the crime they are suspected of committing.
The court outlined the basic standards for determining competency due to this case. Milton Dusky, a 33 year old man, was charged with assisting in the rape of an underage female and kidnapping. He was clearly suffering from schizophrenia but was found Competent to Stand Trial and received a sentence of 45 years. On petition of writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, the petitioner requested that his conviction be reversed on the grounds that he was not competent to stand trial at the time of the proceeding. Upon reviewing the evidence, the court decided to
Pate. A mentally handicapped 19 year old was arrested for suspicion of stealing bikes. The police interrogated him for four days in large groups, with the teen’s hearing aid, he was sick, he wasn’t being adequately fed, and he was without council or his parents. After four days he confessed to being part of a murder, and was sentenced to 199 years. The court did recognize however that the boy was coerced and that the state violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by using his written statements as evidence in his
John Hospers also thought all things were determined. We may think we are free but there is always something inside us that will urge us to make one decision over another. Clarence Darrow is another hard determinist; he took on the case of Leopold and Loeb who were the two teenagers from wealthy backgrounds. They were found guilty of kidnapping and murdering another teenage boy Bobby Franks. They had the idea of committing the perfect crime.
The Criminal Justice System locks up innocent people and yet innocent people are still getting killed. Eyewitness misidentification has proven to be the leading cause for wrongful convictions, according to The Innocence Project. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992, for the purpose of assisting prisoners to be proven innocent through DNA evidence. To date, 300 people in the United States have been exonerated through DNA testing. The Innocence Project's attorneys and Cardozo clinic students have assisted in the majority of these cases.
or a real life experience, at some point in time everybody has heard a police officer read a suspect their rights. The Miranda warning is given by police officers to inform you of your rights. But where did the Miranda warning get its start, and what rights does it actually protect? In 1963 Phoenix, Arizona resident, Ernesto Miranda, was arrested on charges of rape, kidnap, and burglary. During a grueling two hour-long interrogation, Miranda allegedly confessed to these crimes (McBride, 2006).
The simple reason I say this is that if someone has doubts in their sentence they can appeal their case. It is not the simple fact that an appeal happenes once, it is the fact that is happens over and over again because they do not like the answer they are getting. I believe that they get one shot and if they are found guilty then they should carry out their sentence. I think that society as a whole is too lenient and if they sentence someone that is done and final there is not a waiting process and spend numerous amounts of jail time trying to figure out what is the right thing to do. Personally I believe that no one should be sentenced to life in prison, it is a waste of taxpayers’ money.
They find that once their not getting caught everything is alright. This is not exactly so because crime does not do anything for them, though they may think it does. Many criminals may not notice but crime does not pay a dime because the truth will always find you. All the stolen goods they would have accumulated would not have meant anything to the bail or jail time they would have to deal with when caught. Criminals end up in jail and their whole lives are usually lost, they’re ‘Left to the Cells’.