Relationship Between Interrogation And False Confessions

The article” Interrogation And False Confessions Among Adolescents.” debate the relationship between false confession during the interrogation and bullying using classification of race. Author stated that people who are bully-victim, have the record of granting the false confession when police interrogations. False confessions are typically similar in nature, involving complex social interaction. Innocent make false confessions usually from case to case, even in individual case because they might have past record or history of victimization. These innocents are likely to be vulnerable leading the question and interrogative pressure during a police interview.
The article discusses about the mystery of false confessions among the innocent people. The most of the false confessions are provided under psychological pressure. Researcher in this article, Saul Kassin claim that there are three forms of false confessions; voluntary, internalized, and compliant. Article also mentions the three errors that cause false confessions and how we can decrease the rate of false confessions, which include training, recording and juror education. “In any kind of interrogation, anybody with any common sense wouldn’t agree to confessing to a murder. I mean that is... that is
absurd.” As Mock Juror stated in this quote, people who understand the situation would not confess the crime. Those people who confess the crime might have weaknesses or done under psychological pressure.
This article addresses the existence and cause of false confession as well as the wrongful conviction of the innocent.
There are three issues focus in this article: the manner in which false confession generated, change in susceptibility to interrogative influence, and how false confession lead the wrongful conviction of innocents. In the Norfolk Four case, police pressured the innocent suspects and generate four false confessions. Using the case of the Norfolk Four, the author claims the seven psychological processes that are often involved from false confessions to wrongful conviction. The psychological behavior has affected the confessor and others thinking and actions involved to produce a wrongful
conviction.

In this Article” Inside Interrogation: The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions.” the author stated how investigator use bluff tactic for false confessions without claiming further necessarily implicating the suspect. Three experiments were done in order to determine the impact of the bluff on confession. Experiment one determines how bluffing increase the false confession and effect produced by false evidence. Experiment two repeat the bluff effect and provide how innocence people saw bluff as future of exoneration. Experiment three also discusses about bluff effect on innocent suspect in guilty condition. However, people confess the crime that they did not commit, research show that there is two risk factor of false confession: dispositional vulnerabilities inherent and situational pressures inherent