False confession

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…

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…

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…

With such cases such as the five falsely accused teenage boys who “confessed” to the rape of women in Central Park to Michael Crowe who was coerced into admitting of killing of his younger sister, it is disturbing when defendants do retract their confessions, they are convicted and…

difference in interrogation methods used in the past compared to the more modern method is between the confrontational and non-confrontational methods. Confrontational interrogation, also known as the Reid Technique, is an aggressive way to obtain a confession. It begins by a fact finding interview followed by confrontation, with the police claiming to know the suspect is guilty and sometimes lying about evidence (Brean). After a battery of accusations and stressful psychological techniques…

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…

responses to his interview with Terry Gross from Fresh Air about his article in the New Yorker called “Beyond Good Cop/ Bad Cop: A Look At Real-Life Interrogations.” Starr’s interview covered the topic “Do Police Interrogations Techniques Produce False Confessions?” The bottom line is yes. However, in this on air radio interview with Starr, he compares how two techniques frequently used by law enforcement in the United States with the Reid Method and another used predominately by areas in Europe…

In addition, taking advantage of the person’s lack of knowledge with their legal rights by the boys and their parents were tactically out maneuvered by law enforcement to pursue illegal means to obtain a false confession by these young men that led to them being wrongfully convicted and serving time in jail. However, justice prevailed in the long run at the expense of these young men. The article, “The Interview” written by Douglas Starr in the prestigious magazine…

representative prior to signing. Myers states that the City does not have Just Cause to terminate Pinkstaff. She goes on to reference the criminal law case of Rogers v. Richmond, 365 U.S. 534 (1961). Myers also references litigation involving false confessions in Robles v. Autozone, Inc., 2008 WL 2811762 (Cal. Ct. App. July 22,…

In the article the authors touch on the risk factors of police interrogation and false confessions among juveniles and young people. Prior research implicated juveniles and young people to be more susceptible of falsely confessing when compared to adults. The study presents ADHD and conduct disorder as major risks factors for false confessions. In a questionnaire, the juvenile participants were asked several questions of whether they ever had a diagnosis of ADHD and if yes are they receiving…