awareness skills to reflect on your experiences and opinions. As you read the course resources, participate in discussions, and work on your assignments, the journals may reflect shifts in your opinions or your approaches to issues and topics.
of race, ethnicity, and gender as social constructs, just as sociologists do. You will apply racial and ethnic categories used in the 2020 Census with the four racial, ethnic, and gender categories used in the 1790 Census: Free white males, free white females, all other free persons, and slaves (Pew Research Center, 2020).
Paper: Case Study: The best way to absorb the pathos of wrongful conviction is to conduct an in- depth study of a single case. Each student, therefore, will be required to write a paper discussing the specifics of the Ron Williamson case that was chronicled in John Grisham’s book The Innocent an (e.g., list the crime or crimes of which Ron Williamson was convicted, what sentence was given to Williamson, what happened in the criminal justice system that lead to Williamson’s wrongful conviction, how was Williamson exonerated, how much time did Williamson serve in jail or prison). During the wrongful conviction course several factors associated with wrongful conviction are discussed (e.g., eyewitness error, forensic error, false confessions, false accusations, police error or misconduct, prosecutorial error or misconduct, defense lawyer error or misconduct, and ‘other factors’). Several of these factors were present in the Ron Williamson case. Be sure to specifically list and address any of these factors.
Consider which data collection methods would be most appropriate for your proposed research and why. Restate your research question and the methodological approach chosen for your proposed research study. Then, identify and justify which measurement and data collection method best fits your research question and methodological approach. Please use the Learning Resources to support your post (i.e., cite and reference) https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/...
Reflect on all of the information and requirements regarding laws, ethics, confidentiality, cultural sensitivity, and agency accreditation standards that have been explored in this course. Discuss the following in your initial post: Consider everything that you have reviewed in this course. What has most affected you? Explain your response. How can you apply one best practice that you learned in this course to your future career in the human services field?
