Investigative judgment

Journalists succeed to penetrate in powerful organisations only by posing, by pretending what they are not as well as to know what they do not. Honesty in investigative journalism is all the questions about what honesty requires in fact or allows journalists what to do. First of all, they should get their stories and secondly it is to communicate their stories. To consider more precisely what is wrong with lying…

Paranoia is a frightening thing. It completely alters the way someone lives and thinks. Harsh judgments can be made when we suspect the worst is coming. A famous example of this was Senator Joseph McCarthy. During the late 1940’s and 1950’s, he believed over two hundred communists had hacked the United States Government System (McCarthyism). He desired to find and uncover the ‘communists” hiding in the United States. This was an ongoing subject of quandary and chaos for many years. Most…

sued in convictions, but he was ahead of his time in the field of forensics. He is often credited for helping Scotland Yard introduce technology such as fingerprinting and even used document analysis much before the FBI introduced it to their investigative procedures. Despite all this Holmes still uses a few stereotypes in his detective work, for example when explaining his plan to Watson he said, “When a woman thinks that her house is on fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which…

How reliable is eyewitness testimony? In what ways should the criminal justice system take more notice of the problems that have been identified? This essay will explore the argument of how reliable eyewitness testimony is and will also consider the ways the criminal justice system should take more notice of problems already identified. Eyewitness testimony is when a witness comes forward within the courtroom to give their account of what occurred in relation to the trial which is based upon…

From a long time, effective aids of interrogation are sought after. Studies have shown that uncooperative accused or subjects do no give up information about cases vey easily. The most common and impatient way is torture, which in todays times is not at all preferred. In various cases police investigations direct methods of interrogation have produced better results than physical coercion which has proved to be painstaking and time consuming. When manipulative and hardened offenders are…

matters magistrates hold preliminary hearings, state courts conduct preliminary hearings in criminal cases, and municipal courts handle preliminary hearings. American Bar Association. (n.d.) shares, a prosecutor ordinarily relies on police and other investigative agencies for investigation of alleged criminal acts, but the prosecutor has an affirmative responsibility to investigate suspected illegal activity when it is not adequately dealt with by other agencies. A prosecutor should not…

Although obedience is required, it comes with great responsibility for those in charge. Obedience to a flawed authority has led to the deaths of many who are innocent. How can one explain this phenomenon of reasonable people sacrificing their self-judgment to obey an immoral demand? There are some experiments and the film…

president. David Frost manages to tangle Nixon words and implicate that he was involved in the coverup of the Watergate Scandal. While Nixon confesses, he reveals his egoistic flaw. The president divulges his defect by stating, “I made so many bad judgments, the worst ones mistakes of the heart rather than the head ... but let me say a man in that top job - he's got to have a heart, but his head must always rule his heart.” His words prove the accurateness of my accusations. In his speech he…

When reviewing the case from the perspective of the Police Officer, I would start with the back of the case. An individual had moved rushed into the local post office and through making route past the customers to retail counter. At the retail counter the person pointed a fire arm at the postal clerk who was asked to provide all the money with him. The clerk complied with the demand and the individual after collecting the money fled. Postal Clerk and two customers, John and Jill witnessed the…

rape victims, although this is frequently at a low level. What is still unclear, according to Sleath and Bull (2017) is how the assessment of victim credibility, such as characteristics of the victim, or alcohol intoxication, impacts the police investigative decision making process…