final lecture

Question 1

What is the CSI effect?

Answer 1

secondary to public love for all things CSI

• prosecutors now ask for relevant forensic evidence all the time
  ie. crack dealer wasn’t convicted because they didn’t have finger print evidence even though they found crack in his pocket

Question 2

Podlas study (CSI effect)

Answer 2

• gave details on a mock crime and only purely circumstantial evidence
  -asked jurors on basis of evidence would be willing to convict suspect:
  14% judged suspect guilty because assumed prosecutors have infallible data even if they don’t present it

Question 3

what are the top 3 things that cause wrongful convictions?

Answer 3

1. eyewitness errors (71%)
2. forensic science testing (63%
3. police misconduct

Question 4

March 11 2004

Answer 4

• attacks in madrid spain
• got fingerprints and arrested Gradon Mayfield
• fingerprints matched ones off device and held for months without charge until lawyers were able to say they shouldmt be doing this

Question 5

who uses capital punishment most?

Answer 5

china

-can be executed for cheating on your taxes

Question 6

when was the death penalty abolished in Canada?

Answer 6

1976

Question 7

Who is Isaac Ehrlich?

Answer 7

wrote paper in 1975 that death penalty lead to 7 fewer homicides
-found very many flaws in paper and conclusions could not be drawn from it

Question 8

What is the brutalization Effect?

Answer 8

States that use the death penalty use it to send a message to citizens that life isn’t worth much
-death penalty states have higher homicides rates than states that don’t

Question 9

Cost of death penalty

Answer 9

• capital punishment is more expensive than system where life in prison is max. sentence
• average person on death row for 16 years- expensive to end up killing them

Question 10

what is retribution?

Answer 10

• punishment for committing a crime

ie. if you take someones life, your life should be taken

Question 11

How foolproof are lethal injections?

Answer 11

not foolproof at all

-3 in 2014 and they all moaned and shit for a long time

Question 12

Ceteris Paribus

Answer 12

• knowing one variable can predict another

ie. knowing someones height we can predict their weight

Question 13

oldest man on death row:

Answer 13

• killed after his 76th birthday
• was legally blind, deaf and in wheelchair
• killed with lethal injection

Question 14

4 way that drugs and violence are related

Answer 14

1. violence crimes may be committed to gain drugs or resource to access drugs
2. violence is a way of resolving disputes in illegal and inherently unregulated and ruleless business
3. violence and drugs can arise because of same factors
4. drugs directly make people aggressive

Question 15

Hoaken and Stewart (2003)

Answer 15

• looked at 7 drugs and if it makes you aggressive

- only one that made people aggressive was alcohol

Question 16

what are 2 ironies about the cost of policing drugs is justifiable?

Answer 16

1. drug we know to induce most violence is legal (alcohol) and is often sold and taxed by state for profit
2. greatest amount of drug related violence is likely product of means and regulating illegal and highly profitable industry

Question 17

What did John Stewart Milk think about drugs?

Answer 17

state state should be in practice of telling us what we can and can’t does long as it doesn’t trespass against another person

Question 18

netherlands is based on 2 principles:

Answer 18

1. drug use is public health issue, not criminal matter
2. distinction between hard drugs and soft drugs exist
   - less drug use in netherlands b/c they have it legalized

Question 19

Nutt (drug harm study)

Answer 19

• asked two groups of professionals to rate each drug on 9 different things (acute harm, chronic health consequences)
• experts saw drugs the same way
• some of the most dangerous drugs are legal and the others are illegal
• therefore classification is not accurate

Question 20

7 tentative suggestions on drugs:

Answer 20

1. de criminalize
2. re categorize
3. regulate
4. prohibit by age and other factors
5. tax at an obscene level
6. use revenues to fund treatment and research
7. educate

Question 21

Nancy Reagan (1980’s)

Answer 21

-data suggests that the ad campaign has its effect that teaching kids that using drugs is normal and will lead to more kids doing them

Question 22

Montana Meth Project

Answer 22

• before 2005 had huge meth problem
• hired producers to make ads about meth
• one year later all these stats came out about how the meth rate has lowered
• actually found that there was no decrease and the montana meth project hadn’t been effective

Question 23

Freakonomics

Answer 23

• written by steven Levit

- demonstrated sumo wrestlers cheat to maximize each others salarys

Question 24

Why did Roe vs. Wade cause crime rate to drop in 1990’s?

Answer 24

• supreme court decision that women would have access to abortion in US
• Steven Levit said it’s because the unwanted children that would grow up to be criminals decreased since abortion was available

Question 25

Scrutiny of Levits thoughts on why crime dropped in 1990’s

Answer 25

1. other birth control- should have seen another drop when the pill came out
2. other countries saw decrease in crime at same time when they already legalized abortion
3. out of wedlock births- children born out of wedlock still increasing after crime rate was declining

Question 26

What were Lykkens thoughts on social capacities?

Answer 26

• there were sensitive periods

- born with capacity to develop a monitoring consciousness

Question 27

what findings did Lykken find in fatherless rearing?

Answer 27

correlation between fatherless rearing and subsequent social pathology
7x greater

Question 28

4 predictor variables Lykken is using to predict crime rate

Answer 28

1. males between 15-25
2. % of children fatherless because of divorce
3. % born out of wedlock
4. # of violent offenders in state or federal prison