Why We Should Be Sent To Prison
In today’s Los Angeles times (attached) I read an interesting article about people freed that had been incarcerated unjustly. Some of these 13 men had been in prison for decades for crimes that they did not commit. Interestingly this reminds me growing up my older sister. She got in trouble several times for taking things that did not belong to her from that moment she was always suspected of anything that was missing as lost. It was assumed that she was the guilty party. Upon watching the videos and reading our textbook, I realize how many people are presumed guilty and sentenced unfairly. Although being sent to prison is a far cry from being accused by the family it parallels in there jump to conclusions. It is indeed a travesty
that innocent peoples lives are taken away because of lineups mug sheets and people being told the suspect is in the lineup, and they find the person that closest matches the person they suspected of the crime. Moreover, the most frighting of them is the Mistaken identifications that witness make. Weapons-focus effect defined as the tendency for the presence if a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness’s ability to identify the culprit. This is troublesome because so many crimes involve weapons. It makes you wonder how many have been incorrectly accused. Secondly, Own Race-identification bias is defined as the tendency to for people to be more accurate at recognizing members of other their own racial group than of other groups. Sadly, this appears to be why the percentage of African American men is so high in wrongfully convicted. I always felt sorry for my sister; she often yelled: “what do you want me to do, take a lie detector test.?” A Polygraph is a mechanical instrument that records physiological arousal from multiple channels; it is also used as a lie -detector test. I could now tell her never volunteer; it has a 14% error rate even if you are telling the truth. I Learned so much that even if I was taking to jail for something I didn’t do I would never say a word and would always ask for an attorney between interrogation techniques in officers trying to close cases because of their overload it sometimes innocent people are sent to prison for things that they never committed.
that innocent peoples lives are taken away because of lineups mug sheets and people being told the suspect is in the lineup, and they find the person that closest matches the person they suspected of the crime. Moreover, the most frighting of them is the Mistaken identifications that witness make. Weapons-focus effect defined as the tendency for the presence if a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness’s ability to identify the culprit. This is troublesome because so many crimes involve weapons. It makes you wonder how many have been incorrectly accused. Secondly, Own Race-identification bias is defined as the tendency to for people to be more accurate at recognizing members of other their own racial group than of other groups. Sadly, this appears to be why the percentage of African American men is so high in wrongfully convicted. I always felt sorry for my sister; she often yelled: “what do you want me to do, take a lie detector test.?” A Polygraph is a mechanical instrument that records physiological arousal from multiple channels; it is also used as a lie -detector test. I could now tell her never volunteer; it has a 14% error rate even if you are telling the truth. I Learned so much that even if I was taking to jail for something I didn’t do I would never say a word and would always ask for an attorney between interrogation techniques in officers trying to close cases because of their overload it sometimes innocent people are sent to prison for things that they never committed.