SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Child Abduction, Overblowing, Assault
21 Nov 2016
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Perceptions & outcomes influence people"s perceptions on what science and crime solving can do. Jury"s demanding more evidence even if it isn"t necessary. Television has been and continues to be an important medium. Jury influences jury"s decisions on people"s guilt. Robert blake wasn"t found guilty because they didn"t do the same tests done on the csi television show. Legal changes ask people what type of television shows they watch. Defined unrealistic expectation public has on what forensic people can do from watching television. Precision that they are always precise and correct with what they find. Job duties they can be any apart of any jobs. Equipment and training they don"t have all the training and equipment that they would have in the show. Tests that they can test anything, and that dna tests can be done instantaneously. Suspect confesses that they always have suspect and that they confess. Police they have to over collect pieces of evidence.
