Juror Rape Trial

Scully and Marolla uses Scott and Lyman’s typology accounts to analyze the rapists’ motives and actions. When the rapists were interviewed, they were put into two categories: admitters and deniers. Admitters confessed that their sexual act was forced on their victims; while deniers admitted to the act, but still not defining their act as rape. When these rapists confessed, Marolla and Scully concluded that admitters used numerous excuses and deniers used justifications. It has been reported that thirty-four percent of deniers has said their victims were initially unwilling. A great deal of the findings were key to their research. Some of them included that both admitters and deniers were under stress at the time of their rape. Through the deniers’ justifications, they have found that these men committed their wrongdoings because their value system did not give them a reason not to do so. Also their denials came from rape stereotypes that still denied the existence of a victim. Justifications were a common typology that was shared throughout both parties: admitters and

The stereotype of who a typical sexual assault victim is, is also detrimental to abide by as male victims of sexual assault will often fear being blamed and feel emasculated as a result of their victimisation. The continuation of stereotypic types of victims when considering a certain crime can often distort the seriousness of sexual

Can racial bias have an effect on the verdict of being guilty or innocent? The American judicial courtroom has been comprised of the nation’s many greatest racial discriminatory cases over the past century, but the most racially upstanding case, when referring to Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird includes The Scottsboro Trials. Both stories uprise in the 1930s, displaying a white supremacist mindset, which two cases fall into the conviction of rape. The Scottsboro case started on a train to northern Alabama to southern Tennessee, when nine African American boys, ranging in ages from 13-19, allegedly raped two “innocent” Caucasian women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates. Racial discrimination uprises in American judicial system when shown in To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scottsboro Trials through the racial prejudice within the jury in the courtroom, easy accessibility to target African Americans, biased accusations, as well as the social pressure to serve in one’s defense.

When thinking of a jury, there is a belief that everyone is fair when it comes to making the decision of whether the person being accused of the crime is guilty or not guilty because of the person’s race. What if this belief is not necessarily correct? There have been many instances in whether race has been a factor when the jury makes a decision. According to Baskin, Goldstein, and Sommers (2014), there has been enough evidence to show that racial biases influences the decisions of a jury. In this paper, the articles will show how jury decision-making is influenced by the offender’s race.

Racial biases present a detrimental flaw in the U.S Court system, providing the possibility of false convictions. A study conducted by Carnegie Mellon University finds all white juries convict African American defendants a significant 16% more often than white defendants (Anwar, p.2). The statistic above shows the factual effect of race in the justice system. In a study by University of California Irvine, it was found that an African American man convicted of sexual assault was three and-a-half more likely to be innocent than that of their caucasian counterparts.(Gross, p.12-13). As shown in the study above, racism in the jury pool leads to a faulty system and innocent people being convicted of heinous crimes they did not

According to surveys of crime victims, about 70% of white sexual assault victims were attacked by white men and only about 13% by black men. More than half of white victim sexual assault defendants are black, and 37% are white. This shows that black men convicted of raping white women are eight times more likely to be innocent than white men convicted of raping women of their own race. They spend almost four and a half more years in prison before they are exonerated than Caucasian offenders. If convicted, it is harder for African Americans to get their convictions overturned. Misidentification is almost always likely to happen because it is easier for whites to mistake a black person for another black person than it is for them to do their own race. Which basically points out the idea that all black look the same when in reality all they see is color. Misidentification isn’t the only factor for wrongful convictions in sexual assault cases. Another dominant factor is false confessions. False confessions and misidentification go hand and hand the difference is the story can be made up as well as the person in blame. False confessions happened a lot back in the segregation time period. In 1955, Emmett Till was brutally murdered by these white men because a white woman made up a story about him flirting with her in the grocery store. Emmett’s wrongful conviction sentenced

He is polite and makes a point of speaking with proper English grammar. He is the fourth to ultimately vote not guilty

America stands by traditional notions where rape culture is the norm and revolves around society. In particular, when a woman is raped, their actions prior to the incident are usually accounted for their fate of being sexually assaulted. Lately in America, there has been a controversy over women being victim blamed by legal authority in rape cases. These women are slut shammed for allegedly “asking for it” by being intoxicated and having the intention to “have fun”. Because of these accusations of allegedly seeking to engage sexually, rape victims are blamed for initiating the sexual act. An ongoing controversial rape case is the Stanford rape trial of Brock Turner, where the victim was sexually assaulted while unconscious near a dumpster. Turner was convicted for sexual assault, however was only incarcerated for three months. This has recently caused uproar due to justice and retribution not being equally served. The incident occurred near a university campus party; where alcohol was involved and memory loss was present. In addition, she was rushed to the hospital as a rape victim and was examined. Despite complying to use a rape kit and be evaluated, the victim’s accountability is undermined by the leniency of treatment in rape charges. When examining linguistic features of both parties’ written statements, several factors can be analyzed such as each participant’s stance and the credibility of their accounts. In addition, when dissecting a victim’s written account,

Zane Umsted is a licensed attorney and law clerk in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa. He has witnessed the disparities of our judicial system first hand. His work will help us prove that race is an unfortunate label that depicts the sentence of an individual, bringing it to light from within the system itself. However the jurors do play a role in this.  Mike Morrison, Amanda DeVaul-Fetters, and Bertram Gawronski’s “ Stacking the Jury: Legal Professionals’ Peremptory Challenges Reflect Jurors’ Levels of Implicit Race Bias” will give us a better understanding of the sociological,psychological enigmas regarding the role of race of one’s implication in a crime that are found within the juros.

Davis begins her article with how rape laws within the United States were created, and who they were originally meant to benefit. She explains that when rape laws were first being created, they were not at all meant to protect women, but rather, they were made to protect the reputation of upper class men. She writes, “in the United States and other capitalist countries, rape laws as a rule were framed originally for the protection of men of the upper classes...” (Davis 50). This particular framework resulted in a mindset wherein all other individuals who did not fall under this particular category were more likely to be accused of and punished for the crime of rape. As Davis reports, although upper class white males were not exempt from accusation and punishment, “remarkably few white men have been prosecuted,” and rather, “the rape charge has been indiscriminately aimed at Black men...” (Davis 50). By setting up her analysis in this way, Davis is making it clear very early in her paper that the creation of the “black male as rapist myth” came about from an intersection of politics and racism, rather than just one or the other.

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In addition to this concept, Juror #10 shows that past experiences and person bias influence the thoughts and opinions of a person. Juror 10 segregates and divides people stereotypically into “us” being him and the middle class and with “them” being the people of the slums, a different race, or a different upbringing. As a result of these thoughts, Juror 10 was bias towards the young Puerto Rican man on trial because the young man was born in the slums, had a difficult childhood, and a troubled past. Since the boy was Puerto Rican, a different race from Juror 10, Juror 10 consistently antagonizes the boy because it fits his description of “them”. “Look these people are drinking and fighting all the time, and if somebody gets killed…they’re

America has a proud history of being a country that has many different ethnicities and cultures living within its borders. But one of the most prevalent cultures is one that transcends race or country of origin, rape culture. The term used by modern day feminist and gender activist defines a culture which normalizes rape and sexual assaults because of the deeply rooted societal attitudes towards gender and sexuality. In a rape culture the instances of rape are accepted as everyday occurrences and even as the prerogative of men, resulting in the stigmatization and blame placing of rape victims. Although the phrase “rape culture” is relatively modern, the

Along with television shows, news stations are accused of trivializing rape aswell. How many times have you heard, “She asked for it.” or any other type of victim blaming, or a derivative of,“Boys will be boys.” to make rape seem like not such a big deal (1a)? News channels will even go as far as scrutinizing a victim’s dress, mental state, motives and history to make the victim seem in the wrong about their rape (1a). Some channels will inflate the fake rape statistics to make rape seem like a less

Sex offenses receive an inordinate amount of special attention from the public as well as the criminal justice system. Is this because our system is a static reflection of the society/community they answer to? Sexual offense stories infiltrate every membrane of our society, from legal mores to norms, from social media to religion. Our system of justice can’t help but deliver attention to this area. Justice demands it and society needs it for interpersonal validation. The Criminal Justice system has given humans a scale to rate what is normal and what is deviant. Our text (Okada. p.182) shares that