False Convictions In Forensic Psychology

False Confessions and Wrong Convictions in Forensic Psychology
Americans have long historical records of false convictions and wrongful convictions. A number of academicians, journalists, researchers, lawyers as well as activists have attempted to document numerous accounts of the cases where in the innocent have been convicted owing to false confessions and wrong convictions and elaborated upon the reasons as well as their ramifications (Borchard,1932; Radin,1964; Scheck et al., 2000). The present study is the review of literature on the subject of false confessions leading to wrongful convictions. It is only as late as the 21st century that social scientists also got curious in the subject and started to investigate the issue (Forst, 2004;