Trinity

What is the most significant challenge or misperception caused by institutional, cultural and/or social biases with respect to evidence collection and examination and why?

Develop and explain a strategy that you think would work to mitigate or minimize these challenges or misperceptions and why would this strategy be effective?

What do you believe is the most significant challenge in selecting the best evidence for submission to the lab and why is this a challenge?What do you think is the primary factor that can help to determine which piece of evidence has the most probative value and why?

How representative are interest groups in the United States? Do you agree that “all active and legitimate groups have the potential to make themselves heard?” Or is this potential an illusion?

Conservatives have long accused traditional media outlets of having a liberal bias. Are they correct? If so, to what degree? Regardless of whether this particular accusation is correct, what other kinds of bias might affect the reporting of prominent journalists? To the extent that the press exhibits political bias, what factors might cause this bias?

How representative are interest groups in the United States? Do you agree that “all active and legitimate groups have the potential to make themselves heard?” Or is this potential an illusion?

Which of the following describes the idea that racial disparities in the criminal justice system are the results of the belief that society is comprised of groups with opposing values and that criminal law is an instrument of protection for those in power and with authority?

Consensus theory

Conflict theory

Social theory

Psychological theory

Aristotle

Kant

Mills

None of the above

Discuss the bail system as an attempt to resolve the basic conflict between an individual’s right to liberty and society’s right to be safe and protected from criminal offending