the authors give us techniques and information on how the police get what they are in search of. These methods include presentation of false evidence such as fingerprints‚ appeals to god and religion‚ false friendships‚ and prison informants. interrogation are done with the same process‚ police
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the text in various explanations as to why confessions can be tampered with: the puzzle of false confessions‚ contaminated false confessions‚ law enforcement practices‚ corroborated and nonpublic facts‚ denying disclosing facts‚ recorded false interrogations‚ and inconsistent facts (Garrett‚ 2011). In the case of Jeffery Deskovic’s false confession the police officers gave him facts that were explicit to the case and despite the DNA evidence that was pointing to someone else committing the crime‚
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13. Which aspect of police interrogation procedures do you consider to be most troublesome or problematic? Why? Support your position with evidence I believe the aspect of police interrogations that is most troublesome is the coercive aspect. The reason I believe this is a serious problem is some interviewees are more susceptible to giving false confessions than others‚ even under the slightest pressure from police. Children‚ teenagers‚ the mentally handicapped‚ drug users‚ and people with psychological
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worsened by conditions within the suspects’ police interrogation. A confession is arguably one of the most valuable and convincing forms of evidence. Thus‚ it is important to understand what influences suspects to confess to crimes they do not commit. In the two experiments conducted‚ factors that could influence the likelihood of a suspect to overlook the distal consequences in their decision to confess or not were: the duration of the interrogation‚ the perceived severity of the crime committed‚ and
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1. Interview _E___ 2. Interrogation F____ 3. Interrogation approach __I__ 4. Witness __J__ 5. Suspect __D__ 6. Subject _I___ 7. Admission ____ 8. Confession _G___ 9. Deception __H__ 10. Statement __K__ a. Documents used to pass on instructions or information from one party in the department to another b. A written or oral assertion of certain facts and information for an investigation c. The manner in which the interrogator accomplishes the interrogation‚ such as sympathetic‚ aggressive
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the interrogator inflicting more pain on the victim (Costanzo & Gerrity 2009). Many survivors of torture reported that they would have said anything for the torture to stop. This information of course is all speculation‚ because torture-based interrogation are usually conducted in secret. There is no direct research on the relationship between torture and false confession. Even though there is no correlation between torture and false confession‚ it should still be used in certain situations. If the
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target innocent people for interrogation because of erroneous judgments of truth and deception. Second‚ innocent people sometimes confess as a function of certain interrogation tactics‚ dispositional suspect vulnerabilities‚ and the phenomenology of innocence. Third‚ jurors fail to discount even those confessions they see as coerced. At present‚ researchers are seeking ways to improve the accuracy of confession evidence and its evaluation in the courtroom. interrogation; confessions; evidence KEYWORDS—police
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require mandatory videotaping of all interviews and interrogations” (2005‚ p. 26). After analyzing their argument‚ I shall argue that‚ although one might object that Kassin and Gudjonsson focus too heavily on the importance of protecting criminal suspects‚ they provide a compelling argument that social justice requires such reforms as mandatory video-tapping of police interrogations. In developing their case for the need to reform interrogation tactics‚ Kassin and Gudjonsson survey a number of studies
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Coercion Interrogation is described as the process through which an interrogator induces a person being interrogated into providing statements against his or her own best interest. Police interrogators main aim is to obtain confessions from suspected criminals. In achieving this goal the police have in instances used pressure and coercion while interrogating suspected criminals. It is often difficult to get a confession even from a guilty suspect which makes the goals of an interrogation more difficult
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psychological exhaustion. First‚ when a suspect is kept in interrogation for numerous hours‚ they have the tendency to say and agree with whatever the interrogator says. “Innocent suspects confess because they are terrified‚ confused and exhausted; because they are deceived or tricked; because they don’t understand what they are doing; and because they feel hopeless‚ helpless and isolated”(Gross &Possley). Second‚ officers who conduct “modern” interrogations may lie about the evidence and tell the suspect
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