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The Analysis of Facial Identification and Race Leading to Faulty Eye Witness Identification �
Get PDFPsychology and criminal justice are fields that constantly intertwine in the search to find justice. In recent years, hundreds of innocent people have been exonerated by DNA evidence due to the work and dedication of The Innocence Project. Out of these hundreds of exonerates, about 75% of these false convictions were due to faulty eyewitness identification.
This research involves a literature review on seventeen articles on the own-race bias and how this bias affects facial identification. Own-race bias is the tendency to better recognize faces that one is most familiar with, usually one’s own race. Current research supports the conclusion that people are often flawed in their identification of races different from their own and further research can be conducted to prevent such errors.
Bringing awareness to this bias to the criminal justice system can lead to policies and procedures that decrease the likelihood of these false convictions. Examining this bias can affect the way in which lineups are conducted and the way in which judges allow the admissibility of certain eyewitnesses and evidence.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/research_posters/1028/thumbnail.jp
Sudanese Village
No full textEgypt. Near Aswan. Women dancing in a Sudanese village.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/egypt_slides/1027/thumbnail.jp
The Impact of the Gospel of Matthew on the Treatment of Violence and Self-Defense in the Medieval English and Modern American Legal Systems
Get PDFThere is no doubt that the Bible is filled with the concept of violence, especially in the New Testament, where Jesus faces the violence of persecution in his own life. There is also no doubt that the synoptic gospels each has its own way of addressing this violence: Mark responds to the violence with Jesus’s passivity, while Matthew, Luke, and John, each to their own extent, teach about non-retaliation and doing good to those who wrong you through their depictions of Jesus’s response to violence. Significantly, Matthew depicts Jesus’s response to violence in two different ways: first, Jesus teaches submission and peacemaking on earth, but when he speaks of his post-resurrection return to the earth, he promises vengeance in the eschatological setting. These two different positions on violence create two contradictory versions of Jesus in Matthew: the peaceful, earthly Jesus, and the vengeful and violent eschatological Jesus
Department of Public Administration Newsletter Fall 2019
Get PDFThis is the Fall 2019 edition of the semi-annual newsletter of the Department of Public Administration\u27s Masters of Public Administration students, featuring news and updates on current students and alumni, faculty and department activities.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/mpa_news/1010/thumbnail.jp
Existential Inertia
Get PDFTo all appearances, the basic building blocks of reality tend to keep existing unless something intervenes to destroy them. In other words, basic things seem to have existential inertia. But why might this be? This paper considers a number of arguments for and against existential inertia. It discusses arguments inspired by Aquinas, Descartes, and Spinoza, as well as considerations deriving from Occam’s Razor, entropy, and certain views about the nature of time and change
The Impact of Increased Physical Activity on Academic Achievement
Get PDFThe purpose of this synthesis was to examine the existing body of knowledge regarding the impact of physical activity on academic achievement. Previous research identified several factors that contribute to the increased academic achievement in school aged students as a result of fitness level and physical activity. The studies reviewed within the critical mass yielded themes that contributed to the understanding of how physical activity (PA) impacts academics. The types of PA interventions, who was impacted, and how they were impacted were noted as factors which affected academic achievement (AA). PA is being drastically undervalued in schools. It is important to find ways to increase PA within a student’s academic day. While previous research notes that increased PA has positive impacts academics further research is needed to understand which types of PA directly result in positive AA. Future research should study the effects of intervention recommendations on AA in students
Citadel and Mosque of Mohammed Ali
No full textEgypt. Cairo. Citadel and mosque of Mohammed Ali. View from the minaret of the Sultan Hasan mosque.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/egypt_slides/1016/thumbnail.jp
Let\u27s Change the Subject: Grounding Social Change in Indigenous HIstory and Philosophy
No full textThis article urges altering the discourse around social change. Too often it is antagonistic and negative; it also overlooks continuing colonizing practices and how injustices to Indigenous peoples have helped to shape past and current injustices toward other groups. First, the article foregrounds the religio-political ideology of the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and the boarding-school experience to remind readers about the broader criminal history of the United States toward Indigenous nations and peoples and how colonization is not a thing of the past. Any call for social change should remember this. Second, the article looks at three dimensions of Indigenous philosophy that would be good to affirm as we strive for a better world: relatedness, sustained peace, and an ethic of preservative care. Limited calls for justice that avoid continuing colonizing practices and that begin with negations and hate are not responsible and will help to continue the sustained violence we no longer want. For sustained peace, the strategy should be to begin with an affirmation (here an affirmation of Indigenous wisdom) and a broader historical understanding of the injustices that continue to bring harm to millions of people within the borders of the United States. By changing the subject in this way, it will not only make for more peaceful activism, but it will also create better allies to Indigenous nations and peoples