Interrogation

something about crime.” (107) Even though crackdowns may not be fully directed at crime itself, it does not mean that it does not have any impact. Any impact, big or small, has its merits in the grand scene of crime prevention. “In most long-term crackdowns with apparent initial deterrence, however, the effects began to decay after a short period, sometimes despite continued dosage of police presence or even increased dosage of police sanctions.” (http://www.journals.uchicago.edu) Crackdowns may…

Before Papa was arrested, he was a very in-control person whom everyone respected. No one dared stand up to him because he was the head of the household and his kids were pretty small. “This was partly Papa’s fault. One of his threats to keep us younger kids in line was “I’m going to sell you to the Chinaman.” When I had entered kindergarten two year earlier, I was the only Oriental in the class. They sat me next to a Caucasian girl who happened to have very slanted eyes. I looked at her and…

children ' instead of empowering the child to deal with it more so on their own. Police interrogation tactics have been criticised, with police seeing an increase in judges criticising their techniques. A 1990 police seminar on interrogation techniques showed that police officers did not know all the facts of cases, they were not patient and lost their tempers, and ignored their training. There was a call for interrogations to be videotaped, and for standardised techniques based on academic…

and civil legal system. This allows forensic psychologists to contribute in different ways to the court. These services including assessing those that are accused of their fitness to stand trial based on their mental health, jury selection and interrogation techniques (Roesch, 2015). The legal system, which regulates our life and society makes perfect sense to depict in television dramas. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered in 1999, and the premise of the show is showing how detectives…

In his article “A Case for Torture,” Michael Levin creates a faulty argument for torture by disregarding the issue of the legality of torture. Levin’s article is in response to the publication of a shocking report by the Senate’s Intelligence Committee. The extensive report reveals the details of torture on suspected terrorists conducted by officials of the Central Intelligence Committee (CIA) and members of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). In his article, Levin attempts to defend the…

Boston walked out of his office to find out what was going on. The officers brought the man into the interrogation room and cuffed him to a chair. Boston walked up to the head policeman and asked what in the world was going on, the officer told him that this man was found at the scene of a murder and openly admitted to being the one who committed the brutal act. Boston stepped into the interrogation room and studied the man sitting before him. The man kept his head low and didn’t show his face,…

In the book, “On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City” written by Alice Goffman, social deviance, discrimination against race/social class and poverty are illustrated during Goffman’s six-year research in a deprived neighborhood in Philadelphia. Goffman highlights that “the sheer scope of policing and imprisonment in poor Black neighborhoods is transforming community life in ways that are deep and enduring, not only for the young men who are their targets but for their family members,…

something for both the characters and the audience to contemplate. The mystery surrounding him and his careful choice of words makes him an ideal character for delivering morals, keeping the audience wondering, and moving the play forward with his interrogation. The Inspector interrupts Birling’s capitalist speech about how ‘a man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own-’, commanding his attention and making Birling ‘stop to listen’ before he even makes an appearance.…

Additionally, “Anyone standing up in the Salem of 1692 who denied that witches existed would have faced immediate arrest, the hardest interrogation and quite possibly the rope” (Johnson 40). These accusations often ended up in convictions. Claudia Johnson, in her book Justice in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, states that “Normally, these citations resulted in a routine Federal Court trial which…

The Medieval Era was a time when a vast amount of questions outweighed accurate, rational answers. The advancement of knowledge was still a growing process, and the use of logic and reason was a foreign ideology to most people of the time. Instead of logic and reason, however, people of the Medieval Era looked towards the church for answers. With this system, anything unfamiliar or unorthodox was automatically determined to be evil or sinful. This toxic practice of presumption becomes a negative…