WJEC Criminology Unit 3 (New 2024/ 2025 Update) Questions and Verified Answers| 100% Correct| A Grade
QUESTION
When can a case be decided by judges,
... [Show More] without a jury?
Answer:
Since the Criminal Justice Act 2003, a case can be heard without a jury if it is believed that the case will be complex, or long, or that jury tampering may occur.
QUESTION
Who can be called for jury duty?
Answer:
Between 18-75.Have no criminal convictions.
Resident in the UK for 5 or more years.
QUESTION
Jury equity
Answer:
Where a jury brings a verdict that it believes is morally right, rather than one that complies with the law or previous cases.
QUESTION
R v Owen
Answer:
The defendant's son has been killed by a careless driver. Owen's son was knocked off his bicycle by a 30 ton truck, driven by an uninsured and unqualified driver who was blind in one eye. Owen felt that the sentence was insufficient and took matters into his own hands. He shot the driver with a sawn-off shotgun. The jury acquitted Owen of attempted murder and some members of the jury later congratulated him.
QUESTION
What are the strengths of the jury system?
Answer:
The jury system is popular with the public.
There is a democratic right to be tried by one's peers.
There are 12 people on a jury, so no one person is responsible.
QUESTION
What weaknesses are there in the jury system?
Answer:
Juries do not need to give reasons for the verdicts.
Juries may be influenced by media reporting of the trial. Jurors may bring their own prejudices to the case.
There is no IQ test to be a juror and some jurors may not be able to follow complex cases.
Juries may be open to "jury nobbling" or tampering.
QUESTION
What are the strengths of cases being decided by magistrates?
Answer:
Magis- trates are only paid expenses and so are much cheaper than judges.
Magistrates are lay people, which allows ordinary people to take part in the admin- istration of justice.
Magistrates usually sit in threes.
QUESTION
What are the weaknesses in cases being decided by magistrates?
Answer:
There is inconsistency in sentencing.
Magistrates have been criticised for being too middle class and middle aged. Magistrates have been accused of being prosecution-biased with a tendency to
believe police evidence.
QUESTION
SOCO
Answer:
Scene of Crime Officers. SOCOs search for evidence such as gunshot residue, fingerprints, hairs and fibres.
QUESTION
Amanda Knox
Answer:
She was arrested for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Detectives inside the house failed to wear any protective clothing, such as shoe covers and this was used to suggest that the evidence collected was unreliable.
QUESTION
Forensic Scientists
Answer:
They review evidence from a crime scene. Forensic scien- tists may be expert in a range of fields, such as toxicology, dentistry or fire.
QUESTION
Adam Scott
Answer:
He was held in custody for six months when a plastic tray containing his DNA had not been disposed of and was re-used in a rape case.
QUESTION
Crown Prosecution S [Show Less]