False Impression

by Kassin, Drizin, Grisso, Gudjonsson, Leo & Redlich (2010), false confessions have a devastating impact on the well-being of innocent people as it is one of the leading cause of wrongful convictions. Furthermore, the courts tend to attach significant importance to a suspect’s confession regardless if its true or not (Kassin, et al., 2010). Therefore, interrogators should ensure that innocent people are not coerced into providing a false confession. Every individual charged with an offense is…

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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…

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False confessions have become more prevalent in today’s world. With all of the technology advances today we have found out that we have convicted people who have falsely confessed. In Marion’s peer review article it says, “Since 1989, more than 1,400 wrongful convictions of innocent people have been exposed in the United States—either through DNA testing or via the discovery of other types of evidence” (Marion 65). However today we have organizations that are trying to help people with cases.…

Have you ever heard of lucid dreaming, and is it all it thought up to be? There is also a negative consequence that can occur. Are teenager more at risk from suffering from sleep paralysis due to this trend. Lucid dreaming is where you are aware of dreaming. During lucid dreaming, you may be able to have control over the dream characters, story, and environment. Can lucid dreaming have multiple negative side effects on people and especially teenagers that attempt or have succeeded in doing?…

Park 5 Case and the false confession related to this case. Five of the African-American and Hispanic-American teenagers were considered resibonsible for the malignant rape case and were arrested. They made confession due to mental and physical mistreatment, which was proved to be false confession years later because the true raper stepped forward and confessed. I focus on two of the main factors: motivation and personality. This type of false confession is coerced-compliant false confessions. In…

Background: False confessions are a major issue in our criminal justice system. Organizations like the Innocence Project have shown that 20% of the people they exonerate falsely confessed. Because of that, Russano, Meissner, Narchet and Kassin strived to identify what factors and circumstances increase the likelihood of a false confession. Through Kassin and McNall research, maximization and minimization were categorized as interrogation methods (1991). Russano, Meissner, Narchet and Kassin have…

It seems as though many women in the world we live in today struggle to find themselves comfortable in their own skin. What seems to be the big question is why do young girls and even older women feel as if they are not pretty enough? The answer to that question is the media. Everywhere we look, we see photo-shopped images that have taken away a woman 's wrinkles, freckles, blemishes, and has even changed her whole physique. When women see these "perfect" pictures, they begin to feel depressed…

sentence recommendations. The Death Penalty Information Center had documented cases in which death row inmates were released due to new evidence and in many cases, the cause of wrongful convictions can be traced back to the interrogation phase in which false confessions are extracted. Many experts believe that the solution to suspects being coerced into wrongful confessions are videotaping confessions.…