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Mad About Justice: Self-Analysis
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Friday, November 9, 2007. The reason why having a racially diverse jury makes a difference only became clear to me after researching this project. People of different races and socioeconomic backgrounds have different interpretations of the law, and how it should be applied. I really liked your final quote:. But instead we should always be questioning, and never take anything as direct truth without first analyzing it thoroughly.". I agree. Therefore,. To: The UNC-Chapel Hill community. 1) The project wa...
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Justice In Society: The Nature of Punishment
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Monday, October 29, 2007. The Nature of Punishment. The existence of punishment dates back to Babylonian times. And has been necessary to maintain social order within any civilization. Most people would agree on its two main functions: for retribution and for bettering society. The nature of punishment has evolved from physical to ...
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Justice In Society: Critical Self Analysis
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Monday, November 5, 2007. These last few blog posting have been hectic for me personally. At first I felt as I didn't have enough sources on how race influences both jury decisions and how jury selection methods should equally represent minorities for the sake of eliminating racism in the jury. As well as the Rodney King trial.
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Justice In Society: Self Analysis: Looking Back
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Monday, November 5, 2007. Self Analysis: Looking Back. Impact of pretrial press. Effect on individual court cases ( O.J. Simpson. I was very surprised to learn that the media has always intervened in the justice system only now it has a new medium— camera—to do so. In my opinion, there is a very fine line between news and entertain...
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Justice In Society: Theory Post
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Monday, October 29, 2007. The connection between the effect of economic status on the application of justice is a tough question to be answered nowadays. Statistics show that more black men are convicted of the death penalty than white men. I am really glad that you are addressing the fact of the quality of lawyer one is able to ob...
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Justice In Society: Realizations
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Monday, November 5, 2007. November 5, 2007 at 7:04 PM. November 5, 2007 at 9:22 PM. November 6, 2007 at 2:31 PM. November 7, 2007 at 12:44 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sister Helen Prejean's Blog. Issues in Penal Law.
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Justice In Society: Potential Risks
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. If we don't change the way select our jury and fail to understand the behavioral aspects that race plays in courts, it could bring about outrage citizens to commit occurrences as the. A minority defendant in. Should not be tried any differently from one in. Take the case of Genarlow Wilson. The punishme...
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Justice In Society: Have we evolved?
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Wednesday, October 31, 2007. An excellent example of a psychological punishment that has lasting effects is Chinese water torture. Even as you read this there are 3350 inmates. Waiting on death row. In 1996, the average inmate. The psychology of prison has horrendous results; the Stanford Prison Experiment perfectly illustrates tha...
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Justice In Society: Complexities of Gender Biases
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Friday, November 2, 2007. Complexities of Gender Biases. In order to better understand the way in which women who are accused of murder are brought to justice and punished. I am going to look into the cases of three famous female murderers, Andrea Yates Aileen Carol Wuornos, and Karla Faye Tucker. This particular case bring to ligh...
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Justice In Society: Cameras in the Courtroom
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As a group of students from a liberal arts university on the East Coast, we are seeking to discuss issues of justice in the US: race, gender, economics, media, and punishment. Friday, November 2, 2007. Cameras in the Courtroom. As advancing technology fixes some of the old problems. Though the media is highly scrutinized for its overexposure of certain cases and turning courtrooms into a circus, they are also responsible for unveiling numerous injustices. Would be not be uncovered until years from now in...