I hope it's ok to put this here rather than education because I don't think anyone who might have suggestions will see it there.
I am redesigning a series of lectures which are taught to (mainly) criminal justice students and focus on the theme of explaining errors and biases within the justice system. I already have lectures covering forensic confirmation bias, eyewitness testimony, false confessions, detecting deception, offender profiling, and jury decisions. I would like a couple more topics although I can just split the existing ones across more than one lecture. I was considering biases about public perception of crime (where people think crime rates are always rising when they are not), but it doesn't really fit with the general theme that revolves around criminal justice process.
I was wondering, for example, about police biases that enter the investigative process and not already covered in other topics. So far I have found a bit of material on investigative decision biases that occur at 'tipping points' (such as decision to arrest) but haven't yet found a lot of material that fits together well. There needs to be a clear theme for each lecture or students get confused. This isn't about specific cases although they can be used as illustrations. I need to extract some type of issue that occurs across different investigations, and might be used to explain failures in the process. Is there anything obvious (or not so obvious) that is missing? Something that perhaps occurs across multiple cases of wrongful conviction, that I can look into and make into a clear topic?
I am redesigning a series of lectures which are taught to (mainly) criminal justice students and focus on the theme of explaining errors and biases within the justice system. I already have lectures covering forensic confirmation bias, eyewitness testimony, false confessions, detecting deception, offender profiling, and jury decisions. I would like a couple more topics although I can just split the existing ones across more than one lecture. I was considering biases about public perception of crime (where people think crime rates are always rising when they are not), but it doesn't really fit with the general theme that revolves around criminal justice process.
I was wondering, for example, about police biases that enter the investigative process and not already covered in other topics. So far I have found a bit of material on investigative decision biases that occur at 'tipping points' (such as decision to arrest) but haven't yet found a lot of material that fits together well. There needs to be a clear theme for each lecture or students get confused. This isn't about specific cases although they can be used as illustrations. I need to extract some type of issue that occurs across different investigations, and might be used to explain failures in the process. Is there anything obvious (or not so obvious) that is missing? Something that perhaps occurs across multiple cases of wrongful conviction, that I can look into and make into a clear topic?
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