A Case About A Female Jogger

In the US, police often use the Reid Technique during interrogations. This technique was designed to elicit confessions from suspects. However, this technique can also lead to false confessions. One such case was the case of Michael Crowe, who was accused of murdering his sister. Michael, who was 14 at the time, was questioned by investigators until he eventually confessed to the murder, which he did not commit.

The Reid Technique is the most widely adopted interrogation method used by branches of law enforcement, the military, government entities, as well as private enterprises. To say that it is the unchallenged gold standard would be an understatement, and understandably so. If the main goal of an interrogation is to win a confession from the accused, then there is no greater tool. According to Reid’s own marketing propaganda, 95% Reid-trained survey respondents indicated that their confession rate improved when using the Reid Technique. More than half of them stated that their confession rate increased by more than 25% and nearly a quarter of them said it increased by

The movie “The Central Park Five” was a documentary film. It is talking about five young men were involved in a rape case. One white woman was raped and left for dead in the central park in 1989. Police officers arrested five fifteen years old suspects. The government did not have enough evidence to judge these five black men and Latino Americans; however, because of the racial discrimination, the justices judged them as guilty and sentenced them to jail about 9 to 15 years. After few months, Matias Reyes confessed to the rape case and the lab test also showed that the sperm was matched. The five teenagers were released after the suspect confessed his crime. Directors of the movie, Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David Mcmahon, used

In the video “The Confessions” presented by Frontline, a murder of a women that was committed by one man, quickly resulted into a false gang murder-rape scene committed by eight men. The victim, Michelle Bosko, was seen to be raped and killed in her apartment in Norfolk, Virginia. From the video, it has been proven that seven out of the eight men that confessed were innocent, but somehow they all received an unequal punishment. Because the innocent men admitted to a murder that they didn’t commit out of fear, they were all sentenced to some time in prison. The head detective, Glenn Ford, intimidated the men so much that they either were convinced that they were at the crime scene or they told him every detail that he wanted to hear.

There are three processes that are vital to the Reid technique and they are isolation, confrontation and minimization. The isolation is to create anxiety in an individual so that they feel a need to get away. The confrontation process is when the suspect is accused of a crime. Finally the minimization process is when an investigator uses sympathy to help the suspect justify the crime giving them a way to admit to it. Needless to say there are three reasons for people being pessimistic about the ability of others in deciding who is lying and who is telling the truth.

The term deception means the deliberate act of misleading an individual some may refer to deception as “little white lies.” Deception has long been used in the criminal justice area by officers in the detecting process of criminal cases, and is one of the most commonly used tools in the investigative process. Investigators use deception in the detecting process. This involves misleading criminals during the investigative and interrogative stages, to gather enough information about the

When this Central park case was made public, the New York Police Department and District Attorney office’s main focus was to solve the case as quickly as possible. When the five teenagers were found “wilding” in the park the night of the women’s death, the police believed they had found the suspects. The police were so confident of the teenager’s guiltiness, the five boys were interrogated of their involvement in the crime. The police used their authority and persuasion to get the boys to confess and promise them that they would go home if they talked. Through strenuous and intense interrogation, the five boys confessed to the killing and rape of the young women on videotape. These confessions were given even though

Many of today’s interrogation models being utilized in police investigations have an impact on false confessions. The model that has been in the public eye recently is the social psychological process model of interrogation known as the “The Reid Technique.” There are two alternatives used by the police today to replace the Reid Technique, one is the PEACE Model and the other is Cognitive Interviewing. These methods are not interrogation techniques like Reid but interview processes.

One of several errors in the trial was a reckless omission by a forensic scientist who testified for the prosecution. Semen was found on the victim’s body, the scientist testified, and Dominguez’s blood type matched the semen sample, meaning he could have been the perpetrator. The scientist did not tell the jury, however, that two-thirds of men in America would have matched that sample. Dominguez was convicted and sentenced to nine years in prison. He was released after serving four years and sought DNA testing at his own expense. The tests proved his innocence. His case is one of many in which limited forensic science or wrong forensic testimony has led to wrongful convictions.

However, although this suggests that human lie detection is fairly accurate, earlier research has found the opposite. According to Wallace (1999), psychological research on deception shows that most of us are poor judges of truthfulness. One may assume that this only applies to only ordinary people and not professionals. However further research shows that ‘this applies to professionals such as police and custom inspectors, whose jobs are supposed to include some expertise at lie detection’ (Wallace, 1999).

The most known is the Reid Technique, which is the one we see in murder and crime shows. In the article "How Police Interrogate Murder Suspects." The article describes the Reid Technique as “an accusatory method that relies on signals like anxious body language to assess lying.” (The Guardian). The Reid technique is most common in tv dramas. It portrays suspects being interrogated in a dark room and accused of the crime, while the investigators reveal all the evidence and throw different questions every five seconds. While this technique may work for our favorite t.v. cops, in the real world some are unsure of the effects. Saul Kassin, a professor of psychology has his doubts about the Reid method and argues that, “...the Reid technique can increase the risk of false confessions, especially among young suspects or those with mental health issues.” (The Guardian). While this could be proven to be true, Mr. Kassin doesn’t have to worry. Investigators apply the method most effective for each individual case. One new technique, proven to make the suspects share more information, is called the HIG. Robert Kolker, an investigative journalist says, “...it barely feels like an oppositional interrogation at all. You're there to talk very, very little and to listen a lot and hopefully get the person to say so much that they end up contradicting verifiable information from other means.” (McEvers). The HIG method of interrogation basically focuses on the suspect talking and the interrogator asking few, but guided questions and letting the suspect ramble on, hopefully providing information vital to the case. In the interview between McEvers and Kolker, McEvers and Kolker also talk about how in big, natural lit rooms with carpet the suspects tend to share more. Studies also show if the suspect has a warm drink in their hand they are more likely to have a positive opinion of

A synopsis of the night of the crime, on the night of the crime in 1989, a woman who is identify as Caucasian was jogging at night and was allegedly raped and beaten up. At that night the five teens, who are identify as five African Americans and Hispanics who were treated as suspects in the crime. The New York City Police Department (NYPD) investigated the crime and brought the teens into the interrogation room for questions. As they were being question the interrogation lasted for 30 hours and where they came to a conclusion of a confession. The five teens all confessed to the crime. According to coerced to confess: The psychology of False Confessions stated that,” those five teenage boys who became known as the Central Park Five didn’t commit the crime. They had falsely confessed. Fast-forward to 2002, when the convicted rapist and murder, Mathias Reyes, admitted to the rape of the Jogger.” Due to the result of this, the Central Park five were free. Phycologist study this to see if the investigator try to convince the teens that they have rape the lady that was jogging. Due to this event there were changes in the NYPD of how they conducted their

The 16 year old boyfriend was hit at the back of the head and lost consciousness temporarily. Henderson grabbed the girl and held her at gunpoint threatening to shoot her if she spoke, he forced them both to climb over a gate into a field. This is when he instructed the boy to lay flat on the ground of which he then forced the girl to perform sexual actions. Despite being traumatised by the event the girl ensured that Henderson’s DNA was planted upon her clothes. (http://www.independent.co.uk/) This was a key feature into prosecuting and bringing Henderson to justice. It played a key role in the forensic investigation behind the case. Forensic evidence secured the case which put Henderson behind bars for 12 and a half years and put him on the sex offenders register for life. He was imprisoned for his crimes in July 2012 almost 11 years after he’s offence. (http://www.essentialforensics.co.uk/

3. Compare the outcome of practice the Reid Technique while interviewing a youth suspect with evidence and youth suspect without evidence.

A suspect is an individual against whom, because of sensible suspicion that s/he has perpetrated a criminal offense, an individual against whom an examination is led. The Interrogation of an associate is unified with the most complex operations