{"id":29,"date":"2010-06-14T15:20:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2010\/06\/14\/the-plea\/"},"modified":"2014-07-13T19:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T19:00:42","slug":"the-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2010\/06\/14\/the-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Plea&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"full-image-block ssNonEditable\"><span><img src='https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/files\/2010\/06\/r27744_68912.jpg' alt='' \/><\/span><span class=\"thumbnail-caption\" style=\"width: 400px\">Img: www.abc.net.au<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Approximately 95% of all cases resulting in felony convictions never go to a jury trial. Students are floored by this fact. We live in a Law and Order world where everyone gets a jury&#8217;s verdict within 60 minutes. Plea bargaining is a great topic for any sociology course because it clearly illustrates how social systems, like the criminal justice system, affects individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The video tells the story of 5 defendants lives. Through all of these stories we learn about how plea bargaining can be abused by local governments, how judges can legally coerce defendants into taking a plea, and how the defendants guilt or innocence is largely irrelevant in the current process.<\/p>\n<p>The video can be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/shows\/plea\/view\/\">watched online<\/a> for free and there is a word-for-word transcript that my students loved to review when they were writing their papers. Below you can find the directions to the reaction paper I had my students write. Also, their is another excellent movie called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002FUIJ24?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=soc2us-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B002FUIJ24\">American Violet<\/a> which is a dramatization of the events surrounding the first vignette.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc2.us\/storage\/The%20Plea.rtf\">Reaction Paper Directions (Word Compatible)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc2.us\/storage\/The%20Plea.pdf\">Reaction Paper Directions (pdf Version)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Img: www.abc.net.au Approximately 95% of all cases resulting in felony convictions never go to a jury trial. Students are floored by this fact. We live in a Law and Order world where everyone gets a jury&#8217;s verdict within 60 minutes. Plea bargaining is a great topic for any sociology course because it clearly illustrates how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1982,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30596,30594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deviancecrime","category-videos-for-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/files\/2010\/06\/r27744_68912.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}