Stage 10 Ethical considerations

Stage 10 Ethical considerations-

This stage is all about how it can ethically affect the community or the public people. This can be done due to the media and press conferences. It can also affect the people close to the victim. There is always a debate to whether ethically is it right or not. When the media are involved in crime issues they can either make it better for the officers because by reporting about the crime in newspapers it means that more people will voluntary to help out and raise awareness for the area to watch out for example if a child went missing. But the media can also make things worse because they can edit crime issues to make it more eye catching for people to read. By doing this they can upset the victim or the victim’s family because they don’t want their crime put everywhere and especially if the story has been incorrectly portrayed for media purposes only. This is why it could cause an ethical issue. The same thing happens with press conferences as media uses. But sometimes a press conference is more beneficial because the story can’t be changed and emotions can be shown to the public and in order to this can offer support. Usually people are too upset to be involved in press conference and this is why it is an ethical issue because it is distressing the victim or people around the victim. This stages importance depends on the case because many people get the option if they want to involve media and press conferences but depending on what the case is some people don’t get a choice. For example if someone famous committed a crime there is so many paparazzi following them anyway that it would be hard for them not to be involved in media. This stage is significant to follow out because it can give useful information that can be used whenever as it can be tracked down from media sources. If the media wasn’t very caring towards the ethical issues involved with a person’s case it can cause the person to be too scared to give out too much information as they will be distressed with all the questions coming at them that they might give out wrong information and cause someone else to be made guilty. This stage can make it harder for a successful investigation because most ethical issues involved means the investigation can’t do certain things, for example they can’t always knock and ask questions to people at their house because some people find this ethically wrong and won’t allow it. This can make the investigation harder as it means less information can be found out and it will take them longer to find evidence.

During my case the two daughters of Sion Jenkins had their ethical rights breached. This is because they were questioned that much and known to be pressured by Sion Jenkins to have a certain story that they were changing their statements. They went to see a councillor and this enabled them to not worry about what to say and just say the truthful statements, both daughters didn’t want to be liable for the prosecution of their father. Once they spoke to the councillor and gave out more useful statements it enabled more evidence to be help against Sion Jenkins and this was the reason he was arrested once again. Because of all the questioning and media attention they got it emotionally distraught them and they had to see councillors in order to feel brave enough to give the right information. Also what was ethically wrong in my case was to arrest Sion Jenkins without enough forensic evidence and caused him to lose his reputation as a head school teacher and have threats put towards him. This is wrong because if he was really not guilty making him go through the torture of being known guilty and being picked on is ethically unfair.