The Case of Raphael Question 1
Investigating instances of child abuse is often a precarious task, as we have a natural instinct to want to believe, help, and protect children. However, children, especially under the age of five, have more difficulty distinguishing real events from fake ones and do not have the same memory capacities as adults (Costanzo and Krauss, 218). To best ensure that accurate information is gained from children and to prevent investigator bias, the National Institute of Child Health and Development developed an Investigative Interview Protocol. In the case of Raphael, some of these protocol were not followed. For instance one of the protocol is to not use suggestive questioning (Costanzo and Krauss, 221). A suggestive …show more content…
Additionally, it is impossible to say with certainty whether an individual will be a danger to society. Psychologists use a variety of methods to assess risk such as unstructured clinical judgement and actuarial techniques. If I was a Forensic Psychologist assessing Donnie I would use actuarial methods because they produce more accurate predictions than unstructured clinical judgement (Costanzo and Krauss, 291). Specifically, I would use a combination of historical markers, dynamic markers, and risk management …show more content…
Incapacitation is used as a means to protect society from the individual. In the case of Leonardo who was charged with drug trafficking he would be incapacitated so he could not sell any more drugs. Specific deterrence means prison will convince the individual not to commit the crime again while general deterrence means other people will not commit similar crimes after seeing the individual suffer in prison. Based on these principles, the goal of imprisoning Leonardo would be to prevent him from ever selling or using drugs again and to prevent others from selling or using. The goal of retribution is to punish the criminal, obviously in Leonardo’s case it would be to punish him for having drugs and underage drinking. Finally, the goal of rehabilitation is to make the criminal a productive member of society upon
Investigating instances of child abuse is often a precarious task, as we have a natural instinct to want to believe, help, and protect children. However, children, especially under the age of five, have more difficulty distinguishing real events from fake ones and do not have the same memory capacities as adults (Costanzo and Krauss, 218). To best ensure that accurate information is gained from children and to prevent investigator bias, the National Institute of Child Health and Development developed an Investigative Interview Protocol. In the case of Raphael, some of these protocol were not followed. For instance one of the protocol is to not use suggestive questioning (Costanzo and Krauss, 221). A suggestive …show more content…
Additionally, it is impossible to say with certainty whether an individual will be a danger to society. Psychologists use a variety of methods to assess risk such as unstructured clinical judgement and actuarial techniques. If I was a Forensic Psychologist assessing Donnie I would use actuarial methods because they produce more accurate predictions than unstructured clinical judgement (Costanzo and Krauss, 291). Specifically, I would use a combination of historical markers, dynamic markers, and risk management …show more content…
Incapacitation is used as a means to protect society from the individual. In the case of Leonardo who was charged with drug trafficking he would be incapacitated so he could not sell any more drugs. Specific deterrence means prison will convince the individual not to commit the crime again while general deterrence means other people will not commit similar crimes after seeing the individual suffer in prison. Based on these principles, the goal of imprisoning Leonardo would be to prevent him from ever selling or using drugs again and to prevent others from selling or using. The goal of retribution is to punish the criminal, obviously in Leonardo’s case it would be to punish him for having drugs and underage drinking. Finally, the goal of rehabilitation is to make the criminal a productive member of society upon