A few days later, the suspect is caught based on the witness account of events. The witness is asked to testify in court but refuses because he or she believes retaliation will soon follow from identifying the murderer. The witness is subpoenaed by the courts to testify. Should the witness have to testify? This is the question posed to many journalists when asked to provide the source of their current news story.
The Maycomb Tribune The Trial Yesterday in the Maycomb Courthouse the trial of Tom Robinson had finally come around. The defendant Tom Robinson and his lawyer Atticus Finch were trying to convince the jury that Tom Robinson didn’t rape Mayella Ewell which that’s what he was accused of. The prosecutor Bob Ewell, Mayella Ewell and their lawyer Mr. Gilmer. The courtroom was filled with a lot of people from both races; it looked like the biggest trial in Maycomb’s history. Mr. Bob Ewell was the first person to be put on the stand and have his testimony.
Assignment 1-3 Shane Rittenhouse Acct.341 James Wilson 8/28/13 Briefly summarize the studies of Donald R. Cressey in the area of occupational fraud and abuse. Donald Cressey was a professor in criminology that focused his research on white collar crimes. When he was getting his Ph.D. in criminology, his dissertation had a focus on embezzlers and their crimes. After studying the cases of about 200 inmates, he formed a hypothesis that states: “Trusted person become trusted violators when they conceive of themselves as having a financial problem which is non-sharable, are aware this problem can be secretly resolved by violation of the position of financial trust, and are able to apply to their own conduct in that situation verbalization
This is perhaps a sentiment to his mistrust of authority. He is soon sentenced to two years in a road prison, in a chain gang where he tests the rules that other inmates have learned to conform to for a long time, and even tries to make some changes of his own. Throughout the story there are many examples of operant conditioning, a form of learning in which an individual's behavior is modified by its consequences, and it is from these examples that one gains a greater insight into the psychology behind the process. Within operant conditioning there are for main factors that categorize the different forms of operant conditioning, the spontaneous behavior, the stimulus, the consequence, and the response. When Luke first arrives at the prison he converses with the warden who explains that Luke is a decorated veteran, yet left the military service just as he went in, as a Private.
The Cruel Hand In chapter 4 of her book –The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander discusses the legal and social challenges the drug felons face as they struggle to reintegrate themselves into the unwelcoming mainstream American society, after they are released from prison. She explores “the stigma of criminality” (Alexander 141) that follows these people long after they have served their prison sentence. She starts by describing how these drug offenders have often been made to plead guilty to drug charges leveled against them, in exchange for ‘lenient’ court sentences, without really knowing the underlying consequences of their guilt plea. Firstly, Michelle points out that these freed felons will not only stand disqualified from public housing, but that even private house owners are legally authorized to discriminate against them. Secondly, that these freed felons –who are disproportionately African Americans - are discriminated against when it comes to employment, making them even more miserable.
Aliandra Marrero Criminal Justice I Period 2 Charles Mason Portfolio Activity Mr. Malizia February 1st, 2013 Manson Questions 1. Manson’s childhood greatly affected his adulthood because during the first 32 years of his life he was incarcerated for 17 of them. He was also violently and sexually attacked. And his criminal behavior started to gradually increase as he aged.Spending all that time in jail taught him new things and how to commit different crimes. He started off with petty crimes such as theft and gradually increased to more serious crimes.
[2][3] Arrested a month before his 16th birthday,[4] he was tried and convicted as a minor. By law, this meant that he would be released and his criminal records sealed as soon as he turned 21. [2][5] Price bragged that he would "make history" when he was released. [2] The case led to changes in state law to allow juveniles to be tried as adults for serious crimes, but these could not be applied retroactively to Price. [3] Due to the brutality of his crimes and the opinion of state psychologists that he
2 ALTERNATIVES TO INCARCERATION E.M.U. SCHOOL OF POLICE STAFF AND COMMAND Sergeant Shane Ptak Ferndale Police Department Ferndale, MI An applied research project submitted to the Department of Interdisciplinary Technology as part of the School of Police Staff and Command Program Class #16 September 19, 2003 3 ABSTRACT The Phrase “Alternatives to Incarceration” continues to attract both praise and criticisms from politicians, the public, the news media as well as criminal justice professionals. For years, the judicial system has complained about overcrowding and disparities within its jails and prisons. The push in the last few decades has been to find ways to deal with persons convicted of crimes and where to put them. Recent events in the United States have led to a number of calls for the abolition of conditional releases from prison.
The Los Angeles Times used previous stories to depict the most “dangerous man of the decade” (“Dillinger’s Trail Long”). It used all the previous evidence to prove why Dillinger was known as a criminal. The objective for this paper was to develop a creation of stories in history and turn it into one; almost something like a flashback. It referenced all these causes to prove a point on exactly why he died or even why he had to be captured. The Los Angeles Times had a very descriptive and informative outlook on each event that happened throughout the three consecutive days.
To many people, these changes were long overdue. Tasks: 1. Research the rape law in your state. Be sure to share which state you researched, and answer the following questions: a. Can a man be convicted of rape in the state where you currently live?