Trial Day 4: Judges Instructions, Deliberation, Class Discussion
Reflect on your experience (whether you were a direct participant or not). Then, tie what you saw/experienced in to psychology and law. It is fine to have an initial paragraph just remarking on what you thought about the experience (weird, wow, boring, whatever). But the remainder of your blog post should be more formal.
Trial Days 2 (Opening Statements/Prosecution's case) & 3 (Defense's case/Closing Arguments)
Reflect on your experience (whether you were a direct participant or not). Then, tie what you saw/experienced in to psychology and law. It is fine to have an initial paragraph just remarking on what you thought about the experience (weird, wow, boring, whatever). But the remainder of your blog post should be more formal.
Trial Day 1: Preliminary Hearing and Jury Selection
Reflect on your experience (whether you were a direct participant or not). Then, tie what you saw/experienced in to psychology and law. It is fine to have an initial paragraph just remarking on what you thought about the experience (weird, wow, boring, whatever). But the remainder of your blog post should be more formal.
Free Screening of Film Conviction at UNI March 24
The Innocence Project of Iowa, the MacLin Institute for Psychological Science, the American Democracy Project, and the Graduate Program in Public Policy will co-sponsor a screening of the Fox Searchlight feature film Conviction beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 24, in Sabin Hall Room 002 on the UNI campus. The film chronicles the true story of Betty Anne Waters' 18-year effort to put herself through college and law school to challenge the wrongful conviction of her older brother, Kenny. Kenny Waters was exonerated in 2001 with assistance from the national Innocence Project after spending over a third of his life in prison for a crime he didn't commit. The film, which was recently released on DVD, stars Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell. The screening is free and open to the public. More information is available at www.iowainnocence.org.
For 5 pts extra credit--attend the movie and sign in on site
for an additional 5 pts extra credit-write a summary, incorporating psychology/psylaw information, in a comment to this post by Friday 3/25 10pm.
Choose one chapter not covered in the class from C&K or Minds on Trial.
Review and analyze.
5pts extra credit
Read and review one chapter not covered in class from C&K or Minds on Trial.
This is worth 5 pts extra credit.
Reading Ch 6 & 13 from C&K
Review and analyze. Note--you only need to write one blog for these 2 chapters, so incorporate!
Go to this website: http://investigation.discovery.com/videos/real-interrogations-videos/
and view the 4 short interrogation clips.
Apply what you learned from lecture and your readings to these clips.
Review the website. What most interested/surprised you? What did you learn? How does psychology relate?
Welcome to the Stanford Prison Experiment web site, which features an extensive slide show and information about this classic psychology experiment, including parallels with the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.
For this blog, review the Innocence Project website http://www.innocence.org
Choose one of the people who has been wrongfully convicted (there are many posted on this blog; and on the IP website) and learn all you can about this person. Go beyond the profile that you read at one of the innocence websites. Find news articles about their case, case law, anything and everything. Be sure to learn about what issues were at the heart of their conviction, and what issues were at the heart of their release.
For this topical blog you should done one of the following to further develope your knowledge of your role in the mock crime/trial.
1) Interview a professional. Find someone who is your role, and interview them. Report on your questions, the answers, and what you learned.
2) Search around on the internet for a 'day in the life' piece about your role. Summarize what a day in the life is like for a person in your role, and provide your links.
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