Sociology 3312A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Guy Paul Morin, Donald Marshall, Jr., Social Control Theory
18 Dec 2017
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Understanding the causes, effects and responses to wrongful convictions in canada. Psychologists have demonstrated that because of normal deficiencies in the human memory process, eyewitness identification, where witnesses are called on to report their version of events, is inherently unreliable. Eyewitness errors happen for several reasons: o o. Suggestive police interviewing: if the police communicate information to eyewitnesses that influences and ultimately contaminates their testimony. Unconscious transference: occurs among witnesses when a person seen in one situation is confused or recalled as a person in another situation. Mallea(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) of (cid:272)o(cid:374)fide(cid:374)(cid:272)e: the plia(cid:271)le (cid:374)atu(cid:396)e of a (cid:449)it(cid:374)ess"s (cid:272)e(cid:396)tai(cid:374)t(cid:455) of his or her testimony (if police give positive feedback the witness is more certain in choices) o o o o o o o o. In building a case against a suspect, the police may either inadvertently or intentionally suppress, lose, (cid:373)isi(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)et, o(cid:396) o(cid:448)e(cid:396)look e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e that suppo(cid:396)ts the defa(cid:374)da(cid:374)t"s (cid:272)lai(cid:373) of i(cid:374)(cid:374)o(cid:272)e(cid:374)(cid:272)e.
