Confession

believe deception or lying by law enforcement is a justifiable interrogation technique. With that being said, caution should be taken when the decision to utilize such a technique as to prevent violating someone’s rights and prevention of any confessions being ruled coerced by the courts. In American history, police regularly used brutality to obtain information from a suspect (Skolnick & Leo, 1992). Due to things such as the Wickersham report from the 1920’s, changes in law, and…

Confessions are one of the most damning types of evidence in criminal trials. While convictions cannot be based on confessions alone, they are still relied on in litigation (Schwartzbach, 2016). Not all confessions are true, however, even if a person remembers committing the crime. Julia Shaw and Stephen Porter published a study in 2015 that examined the general hypothesis: It is possible to create a false memory of committing a crime. They used a sample of 60 undergraduate students to test the…

Abstract This case study examines Jack the Ripper and the horrible acts of violence he committed in the East End of London during 1888 where five women were murdered. These murders received so much media coverage that what would have been the terrible tragedy of five people being murdered became one of the most famous series of murders and the killer became one of the most terrifying of all time. During this case study, I will describe some current techniques that could have been used in the…

the subject, continues to play an integral role in the criminal justice system.3 Both experimental and field studies demonstrate that criminal officials and jurors place an almost “blind faith in the evidentiary value of confession evidence.”4 This is true even when the confession “[is] not accompanied by any credible corroboration and there [is] compelling…

The Reid technique is a commonly used police interrogation technique in North America (King & Snook, 2009). This interrogation technique is used to elicit confessions from people suspected of committing a criminal offense. The Reid technique requires that police officers collect factual evidence, then the interviewer questions the suspect in a non-accusatory manner (King & Snook, 2009). Truth or deception is then determined based on behavioural analysis of the suspect. If deception is detected…

that they were wrongly accused" (Innocence Project). Wrongly convicted individuals serve an average number of 14 years in prison before they are exonerated and 29% of the cases involved false confessions (Innocence Project). Included in those tens of thousands of cases as well as in the 29% of false confessions is the Jeffrey Deskovic case. In November of 1989 in Peekskill, New York, Jeffrey Deskovic was 16 year old high school student (Crocker Synder, McQuillan, Murphy, Joselson, 2007). He…

Confession In The Confession, four men falsely confess to the rape and murder of Michelle Bosco. The main reasons for their confections were the idea of innocence does not need a lawyer If a lawyer had been present during these confections this horror may have never occurred, and the violation of fundamental human rights during the interrogation. These factors led to the false confession of the four men. There is a stigma around lawyering up when questioned by the police. If innocent…

‘The confession’ is the last track of the album ‘Eli and the Thirteenth Confession’, released in 1968 when Laura Nyro was 21. (Perone, James E, 2012) Unfortunately, the songs she wrote in this album became hits for the others, (e.g. ‘Stone Soul Picnic’ by The Fifth Dimension and ‘Eli's Coming’ by three dog night) yet this fact shows her powerful songwriting skill. As the title of the song ‘The confession’ indicates, she wrote very honest lyrics about her passion, towards both spiritual and…

authorities’ number one priority is to obtain a confession. Unfortunately, in order to do this, investigators use mental manipulation on their suspects. Interrogators would keep the person in a room for hours, and continuously accuse them of a crime that sometimes the person being interrogated did not commit. This pressure would result on an individual giving a false confession. According to the Innocence Project (2014) people usually give out false confession because they believe that if they…

Confronted with many questions, Tandy Angel finds herself using her detective skills again. Confessions: The Paris Mysteries by James Patterson is an enjoyable read and the last of the Confessions novels. Young adults can relate to the lies told to Tandy in a real way. The mystery element of the book makes you not want to put the book down. The shocking revelations make you want to see what Tandy will uncover next making it a true page-turner. After the death of her parents, she finds herself…