Krakauer's part four, Scale of Justice, unfolded the determination of Beau Donaldson’s sentence for the rape of Allison Huguet. Chapters seventeen through twenty all took place within the courtroom where the Beau’s sentence was made and Huguet’ justice was upheld. Krakauer described the delayed hearing which eventually took place on the morning of January 11, 2013. Judge Karen Townsend was the ultimate voice during this hearing who eventually after heard many opinions on the case, determined that Donaldson was in fact guilty for the rape of Allison and was sentenced with thirty years, with twenty of those years suspended. Donaldson was also required to undergo therapy in both alcohol and sex-offender treatment.
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After the devastating Recy Taylor rape case, the author researches similar cases about sexually abused black women. She finds a remarkable case about a courageous woman named Joan Little. The Joan Little case was about the abuse by police in a prison that lead Joan Little, a strong woman, to make a tough decision that would change her life. She was faced with either being raped or harm the abuser. She chose to kill the prison officer who was attempting to sexually attack her.
This documentary was about three eight year old boys who were murdered in West Memphis. Three teenage boys were tried for their killing them. It is said that the three teenagers were part of a santanic worship. I find it crazy that the county had to buy them suits because they could not wear jail clothes to the trial. All three of these boys did not have a very strong alibi.
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American boy who lived in Chicago with his grandmother. When Emmett visited his family in Mississippi, Emmett was a foreigner. He and his cousins went to a nearby grocery store called Bryant's Grocery for a snack, and some refreshments after picking cotton in the hot sun. On August 28, 1955, Emmett Till was visiting family in Mississippi.
She looked up suddenly, saw him and nodded. “Are you all right?” he asked. She was an expert at lip reading from ten years of apprenticeship at Seashell ear-thimbles. She nodded again."
In the scholarly journal “Brave New World: How Test-Optional Policies Could (And Should) Change College Admissions,” written by William C. Hiss and Valerie W. Franks, Hiss and Franks concluded that students who do not send test scores to institutions tend to perform just as well as student’s that send test scores. Hiss and Franks shares their research from a total of 37,000 students from public and private institutions that were accepted to college without sending any test scores. These students were then studied closely by their high school grade point average (GPA), cumulative college GPA, and standardized test scores. The end results explained that there was a very small difference between submitters and non-submitters. Standardized test
My voice came out barely a whisper. I cleared my throat. ‘Remember when you said we should have a talk?’ She [August] closed the door. A sound so final.
Many words come up when thinking of ‘College’, some of which are: learning, independence, goals, party, and freedom; although, that’s not always the case. At residential colleges rape culture has grown tremendously throughout time. In the article, “Mishandling Rape”, written by Jed Rubenfeld completely analyzes and supports the problem of rape in colleges throughout the United States. In this article, he establishes the importance of his argument, the audience he is hoping to speak out to, various logistics, and has a strong ethos appeal which supports his argument.
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The aspect of psychology and law research from this week is correlated to the week four-course material is most relevant to the topic of interrogations and false confession techniques that are used by the detectives. In the case that was presented in the documentary West of Memphis is an investigation of a failure of justice in Arkansas. The interrogation methods from the detectives lead to a false confession. A false confession is an admission to a criminal act that the confessor did not commit (Greene & Heilbrun, 2014, p. 165).
Her voice hard, and rough. “Where am I, who are you?” I whispered, my voice suddenly whittle. Her face tense, practically a statue. “My name is Mara.
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Thousands of people across America are experiencing near-hell while they are locked inside a type of prison called solitary confinement. Solitary confinement must come to an end in America, even for the worst of criminals. The effects of solitary confinement consist of mental illnesses, wrongful convictions, staff members receiving trouble, the long-lasting suffering for the criminals, and the number of people experiencing it must end now. Solitary confinement can change the life of a person behind bars forever. Prisoners are left with multiple mental illnesses, and some are worse than others.
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