I need some ideas for a research paper??

Question

I am majoring in paralegal studies and in my law & ethics class i have to do a research paper. I want to do it on serial killers but i am unsure of how to tie it into the class itself. I am very much into criminal law and would like that to be shown somewhere in the paper. If anyone has any good ideas please throw them at me or email me. Thanks!!

Answer 1

You need to narrow it down. OK, serial killers-how the insanity defense works, tried in the press. How eithical is it for the defendant to make money on book and movie deals. Or just pick a case/killer how where they defended? How did the prosecuter present his/her case? Was there evidence left out?

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The risk of using serial killers is that your fascination with the crimes will distract from the actual legal ethics questions that you are hopefully trying to answer. From a legal/ethical standpoint, most serial killer cases are pretty simple ethically, but consider generalizing a little bit to serial killers and other high-profile cases. Consider looking at the relationship between attorneys and the media. Specifically, to what extent can the prosecutor and defense attorney ethically communicate with the media in high-profile cases? Or consider looking at media access to these cases (public right-to-know versus judge's restrictions on cameras in the courtroom, etc.).

You might also look at the ethical restrictions placed on a defense attorney's ability to handle evidence. What happens if a murder suspect tosses his gun to his defense attorney? What can the defense attorney do with it? What happens if a client decides to show his attorney where the bodies are? What if a client tells his attorney that he will kill someone, and the attorney believes it? Must the attorney tell? Can the attorney tell? In what states?

Good luck.

Answer 3

Pose it from a question of life in prison or is it more ethical for the death penalty for serial killers.

Answer 4

Can't help you with seriel killers and ethics in law.

How about seriel child predators and ethics?

How about taking on the ethical bankruptcy of allowing child predators off on probation? (New Hampshire should be a good place to start. Judge Cashman? And their recent case?)

Answer 5

i'd do a paper on the international monetary device on the properly results of the monetary markets. There s/b a ton of thoughts in this on various web content, rather because it is interior the information now.