1. The continuum of penalties is viewed as the humanizing process in criminal justice, according to Michel Foucault [Chapter 66].  

True

False

2. The term wrongful conviction incorporates all convictions of innocent people regardless of the case specifics.  

True

False

3. Innocent individuals are more likely to accept a plea deal rather than taking their cases to trial because:

a) They are fearful that they are likely to get convicted an serve more time in prison or receive a harsher sentence

b) They dont believe the in faith of the trial by jury system

c) Coping out to a plea deal is easier, less stressful, and least expensive

d) They share some guilt in the whole situation and feel that is their way of paying their debt to society.

4. Which of the following are considered factors that lead to/achieve/result in wrongful conviction.  

a. Bias of the jury

b. Error of professional experts

c. False eye witness testimony  

d. All of the above

5. Bittner refers to the police enforcement of a patrolman as being limited to invoking the law. He also re-explains that same analogy via neurosurgeons operation infrequently. What does Bittner mean by this?  

6. Media attention leads to community awareness to specific cases. Community awareness leads to heighten pressures to pursue an outcome for justice, thus pressure to achieve a conviction.  

True

False

7. Currently media has played a major role in the public knowledge, public opinion, and social expression around crime and criminal activity. With media leading truths and facts about situations, do you believe that media's input and influence has an impact on the justice that is served on extreme high profile cases. Yes or No, explain your answer, use current cases (since 2015) in the media as an example to support your response.

8. The idea that as long as a case moves through the criminal justice system/process it is less and less likely that error(s) (in information or procedure) will be discovered.  

This is known as

a) ramification of error 

b) classification of wrong doing

c) ratification of error  

d) errors of avoidance

9. The presumption of guilt is a rule of law and is embedded in the due process model.  

True

False

10.  In Guilty Until Proved Innocent, Huff and Rattner imply that there are questionable methods used in the American justice system that could cut back on the frequency of false convictions if reevaluated. All of the following are methods mentioned EXCEPT?

a) More ethical prosecutors and police officers

b) Innocent folks should stop taking plea deals

c) More people should be convicted based off polygraph examinations

d) Avoid placing so much weight on eye witness testimony.