PSYCH 3860 Lecture Notes - Conflict Avoidance, Individual And Group Rights, Equal Protection Clause
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Chapter 1: psych and the law: reasons for law, human creations, customs v law, conflict avoidance and resolution, laws against shouting, cursing. Peace keeping, noise ordinances: protect the public, limits on smoking and sodas. Changing the drinking age to 21 instead of 18: the evolution of laws, cars, internet, dna, cloning. Questions we wont cover here: psychological, behavior of individuals involved. Four choices: individual rights vs common good, balancing the two. Limits on free speech, right to peace: marriage laws, victimless crimes like drugs, seat-belts, and smoking, due process. Emphasizes individual rights (exclusion of improper evidence: crime control, reduction of crime (3 strikes law, megan"s law- child predators, equality vs discretion, equality. All are equal before the law: 14th amendment and equal protection, principle of proportionality, mandatory minimums. Is this true: profiling, top attorneys vs public defender, discretion, outcomes based on the facts of each case, mel ignatow, brenda shaefer, mary ann shore- found video of murder.
