Naming Crime Suspects in the News

2020 ◽  
pp. 354-372
Author(s):  
Robin Blom
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Search ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Crime News ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Whereas some news outlets fully identify crime suspects with name, age, address, and other personal details, other news outlets refuse to fully identify any crime suspect—or even people who have been convicted for a crime. News media from a variety of countries have accused and fully identified people of being responsible for crimes, although those persons turned out to be innocent. Yet, when someone types the names of those people in online search engines, for many, stories containing the accusations will turn up at the top of the search results. This chapter examines the positive and negative aspects from those practices by examining journalistic routines in a variety of countries, such as the United States, Nigeria, and The Netherlands. This analysis demonstrates that important ethical imperatives—often represented in ethics codes of professional journalism organizations—can be contradictory in these decision-making processes. Journalists need to weigh whether they would like to “seek truth and report it” or “minimize harm” when describing crime suspects.

Naming Crime Suspects in the News

2017 ◽  
pp. 207-225
Author(s):  
Robin Blom
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Search ◽  
Ethics Codes ◽  
Search Results ◽  
Crime News ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Whereas some news outlets fully identify crime suspects with name, age, address, and other personal details, other news outlets refuse to fully identify any crime suspect—or even people who have been convicted for a crime. News media from a variety of countries have accused and fully identified people of being responsible for crimes, although those persons turned out to be innocent. Yet, when someone types the names of those people in online search engines, for many, stories containing the accusations will turn up at the top of the search results. This chapter examines the positive and negative aspects from those practices by examining journalistic routines in a variety of countries, such as the United States, Nigeria, and The Netherlands. This analysis demonstrates that important ethical imperatives—often represented in ethics codes of professional journalism organizations—can be contradictory in these decision-making processes. Journalists need to weigh whether they would like to “seek truth and report it” or “minimize harm” when describing crime suspects.

An Exploration of Ethical Decision-making Processes in the United States and Egypt

2007 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafik I. Beekun ◽  
Ramda Hamdy ◽  
James W. Westerman ◽  
Hassan R. HassabElnaby
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Ethical Decision ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Making Processes

scholarly journals Decision Making for Managing Community Flood Risks: Perspectives of United States Floodplain Managers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenna Tyler ◽  
Abdul-Akeem Sadiq ◽  
Douglas S. Noonan ◽  
Rebecca M. Entress
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Poverty Rate ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Flood Risks ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Processes

AbstractTo reduce flood losses, floodplain managers make decisions on how to effectively manage their community’s flood risks. While there is a growing body of research that examines how individuals and households make decisions to manage their flood risks, far less attention has been directed at understanding the decision-making processes for flood management at the community level. This study aimed to narrow this research gap by examining floodplain managers’ perceptions of the quality of their community’s flood management decision-making processes. Data gathered from interviews with 200 floodplain managers in the United States indicate that most floodplain managers perceive their community’s flood management decision-making processes to be good. The results also indicate that communities participating in the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Community Rating System, as well as communities with a higher level of concern for flooding and a lower poverty rate, are significantly more likely to report better flood management decision-making processes.

INFLUENCE OF LOBBYING ON THE KARABAKH CONFLICT

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-52
Author(s):  
Yulduzkhan Imomova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This article examines the role and influence of ethnic lobby groups that exert pressure on decision-making processes regarding the Karabakh conflict. The lobby groups actively operate in democratic states such as the United States, Russia and Turkey and form a political position on the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which in turn may affect the consequences of the conflict

Why Does Planning Matter in Microclimate Management and Urban Heat Mitigation?

2019 ◽  
pp. 0739456X1988300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi P. Heris ◽  
Brian Muller ◽  
Alana M. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Main Factors

In this paper, we examine two mixed-use redevelopment projects in the United States, including both regulatory and procedural contexts, to assess how decision-making processes affected microclimate outcomes. We investigate Belmar in Lakewood, CO and 29th Street Mall in Boulder, CO. Measurements and simulations of microclimate show that Belmar mitigates urban heat more effectively. Policies including building height, street patterns, and landscaping standards were key variables in this outcome. Through interviews and content analysis, we found five main factors shaping those policy choices: (1) urban vision, (2) land use and form controls, (3) design guidelines, (4) public financing, and (5) ownership/condemnation factors.

scholarly journals Recall to prison in Belgium: Back-end sentencing in search of reintegration

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-25
Author(s):  
Kristel Beyens ◽  
Lars Breuls ◽  
Lana De Pelecijn ◽  
Marijke Roosen ◽  
Veerle Scheirs
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
The United States ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Early Release ◽  
Technical Violations ◽  
Front End ◽  
Decision Making Processes

In recent years, the United States and England and Wales have witnessed growing re-incarceration rates. This growth is not only due to the courts sending more people to prison (‘front-end sentencing’), but also due to an increasing number of revocations of early release measures, mainly following technical violations of licence conditions (so called ‘back-end sentencing’). However, it is unclear whether the same phenomenon exists in other (European) countries. Therefore, we empirically studied prison recall decision-making processes in Belgium by file analysis, complemented with focus groups with the decision makers involved in the recall process of prisoners with a sentence of more than three years. We found that the recall process in Belgium is embedded in a strong narrative of ‘giving chances’ and that all decision makers deploy a large amount of discretion, which they use to make deliberate decisions in an attempt to facilitate parolees’ reintegration process. Non-compliance with imposed conditions does not automatically lead to recall and even when a parolee is sent back to prison, recall is framed by the decision makers as a step in the reintegration process, not the end of it.

Perspectives on periviability counselling and decision-making differed between neonatologists in the United States and the Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 107 (10) ◽  
pp. 1710-1715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ninke M. Schrijvers ◽  
Rosa Geurtzen ◽  
Jos M.T. Draaisma ◽  
Louis P. Halamek ◽  
Nicole K. Yamada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Disordered Punishment: Workaround Technologies of Criminal Records Disclosure and the Rise of a New Penal Entrepreneurialism

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Corda ◽  
Sarah E Lageson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Third Parties ◽  
Criminal Record ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Record Data ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Private Actors

Abstract The privatization of punishment is a well-established phenomenon in modern criminal justice operations. Less understood are the market and technological forces that have dramatically reshaped the creation and sharing of criminal record data in recent years. Analysing trends in both the United States and Europe, we argue that this massive shift is cause to reconceptualize theories of penal entrepreneurialism to more directly address the role of technology and commercial interests. Criminal records, or proxies for them, are now actively produced and managed by third parties via corporate decision-making processes, rather than government dictating boundaries or outsourcing duties to private actors. This has led to what we term ‘disordered punishment’, imposed unevenly and inconsistently across multiple platforms, increasingly difficult for both government and individuals to control.

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