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Michael Villacci
Southern New Hampshire University
Stephanie Liebert
June 24, 2022
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There are four lenses when relating to liberal arts. These lenses are social science, history, humanities, and natural science. Each of these lenses has key characteristics. The key characteristic to social science is that it focuses on the study of different cultures in the world, but it is also the study of people and society. This allows us to understand different ways of people and how they exist, function and relate on our planet. Historical lenses deal with events in
the past. The key characteristic of this lens is that it allows us to consider our gains or losses in society. An example of this is financial aid for education, unemployment, and medical needs. The humanities lens is like the social lens. The only difference is that it allows us to look at similarities and differences in the world by analyzing and researching other cultures. This allows us to have diversity in each other's cultures as well. The natural science lens brings a whole new perspective than the other lenses. It focuses on science and technology as a tool that we have developed to make life on this planet much easier
. The similarities between the history and science lens are that they both look back into the past. In reference to my justice topic both history and science can back track on past cases to make a standing ground argument or research point. If we use these lenses in reference to justice,
we can make better judgements for the future cases. However, these two lenses have differences as well. In reference to corruption, you can see how it was in the past by reading up on past cases. With social science you can see how a society became corrupt how it trickled down into certain societies and how they lived their lives due to the already in existence corruption. The history lens on the other hand will show you how so many people have been unlawfully or incorrectly imprisoned.
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This leads me to my topic choice: Justice. The reason I picked this topic is that currently there are so many injustices in the world that we live in today. Whether its police violence, wrongful imprisonment or discrimination. In history we can see how many injustices have occurred. The two lenses that I selected for my analysis are Society and Historical. These two lenses work hand in hand as you can go back into past history and see how the laws in the justice
system were then. It also gives you a good snapshot of how society was and what needed to be reformed. Moving ahead in history we can see the path that certain laws took. We can also use both lenses of society and history to look at certain laws and see how these laws or rulings affected and or affect minorities. Both of these lenses cover a wide area of justice, and both are equally important to this topic. Social lens is important to this topic because a big population of women involved in DV situation in the United States lost a child at the hand of their abuser. This is an important topic and issue in our society. I have gained a lot of insight and am shocked at how the justice system as delt with some of these cases. My hopes are that more research like this and the exposure to the world will help certain groups fight their injustices. What I know about my topic of justice is the following. I know that the purpose of our justice
system is to ensure the safety of citizens of our planet. I know that in our justice system you are innocent until you are proven guilty. I know that if you are arrested you must right to an attorney and you are brought before a jury that decides if you are innocent or guilty. Our justice system is
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put in place to enforce the law. I know that in the past I was personally on one occasion falsely accused of a crime and in turn served prison time for something that I did not do. I want to know the following. I want to know how widespread it in the United States is that people are falsely accused of crimes and what is and has been there outcomes in history. I want to know how the database of DNA is kept and how it has gotten better or worse in time. I want to
know if there is a particular race that has suffered due to injustices in the justice system particularly the African American race. I also want to know if there is proper training for police so they might learn to be unbiased. Since my first question is how widespread it in the United States is that people are falsely accused of crimes and what has been the outcomes in history, I searched the resources available for us. I learned from these resources that there is a widespread history of falsely accused crimes. Three cases that I will be discussing is the George Floyd case and The Central Park 5. I also will be touching on the case of Geraldine Perkins whose son was killed by her boyfriend and
she served four years in prison and two on parole. For purposes of my research, I am expanding on the learned part of my analysis. The first question was:
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How widespread in the United States are people falsely accused of crimes?
According to my research, anywhere between 2 and 10% of people in prison in the United States are innocent. The National Registry of Exoneration conducted a report in 2019 and showed statistics proving this drastic point. (LATIMES 2018)
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How is the DNA database kept has it gotten better or worse?
According to my research, there have been many errors in DNA testing in history. According to Yourgenome.org (2015) One out of every one hundred forensic tests performed on suspected criminals may give a false result. False matches between a person’s DNA profile and the crime scene DNA profile can occur just by chance. Based on my research it seems that one of the biggest problems facing the criminal justice system today is how backlogged DNA samples and evidence from crime scenes are. This can be seen mostly in sexual assault and murder cases. (Justice.gov, 2017)
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What race has suffered the most injustices?
According to Pewresearch.org (2021), the major race that has been discriminated against is African American. This is then followed by Hispanic and Asian.
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Is there proper training for police to be unbiased?
According to CBS News (2019), 155 different precincts were questioned about their racial bias training. At least 69% answered that they had no training in place. A percentage of 57 precents said that they did have it but it was only implemented five years after Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer in Missouri. After this happened many protests occurred. Once again two of the four lenses that I focused on in reference to the above was history and
social sciences. I will finally discuss my topic of justice looking through the historical lens. Based on the history I researched I learned that there were many injustices committed in our
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history in the justice system. Injustices that took peoples freedom away and even their lives. When these injustices in the justice system were brought to life the people were either compensated for the mistake or released from prison. In the extreme result in history lives were lost. Based on the research, the following cases were analyzed: The George Floyd case the Central Park 5 and Geraldine Perkins. According to McGreal (2021), on May 25, 2020 George Floyd was an African-
American man who was murdered by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minnesota. He was falsely
arrested after a store clerk suspected that he was using counterfeit money. Chauvin knelt on his neck and back for 9 minutes and 29 seconds. He subsequently died. He was wrongfully killed, and the family received $27 million in the settlement. In this case the historical lens is dealing with police brutality.
According to Foderaro (1989) The Central Five Case was a criminal case in the United States over the aggravated assault and rape of a white woman in Manhattan's Central Park on April 19, 1989. Five African American and Latino youths were convicted of attacking the woman. They served up to 12 years in jail. At that point another inmate confessed to the crime, and they were all released. These men who were wrongfully convicted sued the city and settled for $41 million. Lastly the case of Geraldine Perkins. Geraldine Perkins was a victim of domestic violence and served four years in prison for manslaughter. She was released in 2020 when her abuser was convicted of the crime. These cases above were looked at from a historical lens. If you look at it lastly from a social lens you can see the following. The George Floyd case created another deep hole in
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society. One that exists with the knowledge that the police brutality across the nation has gotten out of hand. The central park 5 case from the beginning was a topic of national interest. At first it
angered society for the way New York City was handling the law, criminal by youths, and violence against women. The case was a prime example of racial profiling, discrimination, and inequality in our society today.
Given all these point in conclusion we can say that the historical lens is like the society lens as they are going after the facts which are unmistakably there. I do not believe that this topic
of justice needs to be looked at through other lenses unless the DNA discussion can be looked at in the future on the scientific level.
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References
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-grisham-wrongful-convictions-20180311-
story.html
https://www.yourgenome.org/debates/is-it-ethical-to-have-a-national-dna-database
https://www.justice.gov/archives/ag/advancing-justice-through-dna-technology-using-dna-solve-
crimes
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/18/majorities-of-americans-see-at-least-some-
discrimination-against-black-hispanic-and-asian-people-in-the-u-s/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/racial-bias-training-de-escalation-training-policing-in-america/
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