As I reflect back on the modules we covered during this semester, two particular topics really grabbed my attention “Wrongful Convictions” and “Justice Reinvestment.” These two particular topics provided me another perspective how America’s adversarial system has some deeply rooted flaws embedded it. In which, these flaws have created loopholes in the legal system to allow the local, state, and federal agencies to manipulate the people’s ‘due process and protection against self-incrimination’ during questioning of investigations by law enforcement agencies. In which, walks a fine line with these loopholes in the adversarial system to violate people’s Constitutional rights in the 21st century. Over the last several years, the media exposure
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In addition, taking advantage of the person’s lack of knowledge with their legal rights by the boys and their parents were tactically out maneuvered by law enforcement to pursue illegal means to obtain a false confession by these young men that led to them being wrongfully convicted and serving time in jail. However, justice prevailed in the long run at the expense of these young men. The article, “The Interview” written by Douglas Starr in the prestigious magazine “The New Yorker” provided the public the inside view about how interrogation techniques developed by the criminal justice famous interrogator John Reid developed America’s only some what successful system. However, scientific research has shown the flaws in his system. Reid’s historical data collected to produce his psychological predictors for verbal and physical reactions to determine if someone is lying or being evasive during questioning was determined to be skewed due to the outdated data. This was obviously proven in Reid’s initial interrogation with Darrell Parker case. This landmark case was another article with wrongful convictions that made me rethink how the criminal …show more content…
The critically thinking debates throughout the semester have boiled down to the acknowledgement with this mass incarceration problem in America was basically handed to the criminal justice systems to solve or manage for the communities by our government figure heads. However, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel with the reinvestment programs that are socially and economically strategically placed back into these communities. In which, appears to be the answer for the Texas demographic communities. Even though geographical locations have their own ethnic differences in communities, but there are three major variables among all communities dealing with the incarceration issues that can bring change to this issue with mass incarceration problems and help take of some of the burden within the communities. This research team identified the development of substance abuse, mental health, and parole resource institutions within the communities to help curb the mass incarceration numbers with the socially development programs to assist the personnel that leave the prisons and prepare the community with the vital assets to take an active approach in this long transformation process for these individuals and their
In addition, taking advantage of the person’s lack of knowledge with their legal rights by the boys and their parents were tactically out maneuvered by law enforcement to pursue illegal means to obtain a false confession by these young men that led to them being wrongfully convicted and serving time in jail. However, justice prevailed in the long run at the expense of these young men. The article, “The Interview” written by Douglas Starr in the prestigious magazine “The New Yorker” provided the public the inside view about how interrogation techniques developed by the criminal justice famous interrogator John Reid developed America’s only some what successful system. However, scientific research has shown the flaws in his system. Reid’s historical data collected to produce his psychological predictors for verbal and physical reactions to determine if someone is lying or being evasive during questioning was determined to be skewed due to the outdated data. This was obviously proven in Reid’s initial interrogation with Darrell Parker case. This landmark case was another article with wrongful convictions that made me rethink how the criminal …show more content…
The critically thinking debates throughout the semester have boiled down to the acknowledgement with this mass incarceration problem in America was basically handed to the criminal justice systems to solve or manage for the communities by our government figure heads. However, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel with the reinvestment programs that are socially and economically strategically placed back into these communities. In which, appears to be the answer for the Texas demographic communities. Even though geographical locations have their own ethnic differences in communities, but there are three major variables among all communities dealing with the incarceration issues that can bring change to this issue with mass incarceration problems and help take of some of the burden within the communities. This research team identified the development of substance abuse, mental health, and parole resource institutions within the communities to help curb the mass incarceration numbers with the socially development programs to assist the personnel that leave the prisons and prepare the community with the vital assets to take an active approach in this long transformation process for these individuals and their