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English 001 (Flynn) : Criminal Justice Issues: Subject Terms

Subjects

  • Expert Witness Qualifications
  • Expert Evidence
  • Actual Innocence [used for wrongful conviction.  Use Wrongful Conviction as a keyword, if needed]
  • Capital Punishment
  • Arson
  • Public Defenders
  • Appointed Counsel
  • Right to Counsel
  • Youth or Teen* or Adolescen* or juvenile
  •  criminals or perpetrators of crime or offenders or JUVENILE delinquents
  • Crime or criminal
  • Criminal behavior
  • Punishment or retribution
  • Jail* or Penal institutions or prisons or Correctional Institutions or PRISON system
  • JUVENILE justice
  • "TREATMENT of prisoners" or "PRISON overcrowding" or PRISON conditions;
  • Recidivism or re-entry
  • Race or Racism or prejudice
  • African American or Black
  • Hispanic or Latino or Mexican American  or Diverse communities
  • Social aspects or Psychological Aspects or PSYCHOSOCIAL factors
  • Victims
  • News media or social media or mass media or media
  • Social justice
  • poverty
  • gangs
  • Fear of crime"
  • deterrence

Subject Terms

Capital Punishment                        Arson                                          Public Defenders

Actual Innocence                            Expert Witness Qualifications     Expert Evidence

Exoneration                                   DNA fingerprinting                        EXCULPATORY DNA evidence

POSTCONVICTION remedies          False Confessions or forced

 

Judicial Error                                  EYEWITNESS identification and  Reliability 

 

POLICE questioning                       police interrogation methods          Arrest and Police Methods

Witnesses                                     false evidence                              improper forensics or False or Misleading Forensic Evidence

Mistaken Witness ID,                     Official Misconduct                       discredited evidence

Admissible Evidence                      FALSE memory syndrome             MIRANDA v. Arizona (Supreme Court case)

FIFTH AMENDMENT rights                    SELF-incrimination                          Perjury or False Accusation

adult correctional population        Prisoners

JURY nullification                            Jurors or juries