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indication of their decision making freedom being replaced by compliance (Farmer, 2011). False confessions There is a direct correlation between false confessions and age, where juveniles were would be more keen to taking responsibility for an act he or she did not commit (Farmer, 2011). To prove this hypothesis, a laboratory experiment was conducted to show that suggestibility was an important factor in regards to false confession (Farmer, 2011). This experiment was created to convince participants in

1) PSYCHOLOGY OF INTERROGATION Interrogation- questioning a suspect or witness by law enforcement authorities. Once a person being questioned is arrested, he/she is entitled to be informed of his/her legal rights, and in no case may the interrogation violate rules of due process. * Interrogation may be considered as accusatory, which differentiates it from interviewing. * Context of interrogation is always coercive. Although police powers may be small, psychological powers are very great

In 1989, five African and Hispanic-American boys, between the ages of 14 and 16, were “wilding” in New York City’s Central Park, unaware that the events of that evening would change their lives forever. That same evening a female jogger was found beaten, raped and left for dead. She had multiple fractures as well has her eye socket being crushed and having lost over three quarters of her blood. She survived the attack but was unable to recall any of the events of that evening. Within 48 hours of

False convictions are an incontrovertible flaw of the legal system, and the focus of most legal psychologists is to find a way to lessen the number of innocent people who are falsely convicted of crimes. Murder on a Sunday Morning follows the trial of Brenton Butler, a young African American teenager accused of robbing and murdering a tourist, the sixty-five-year-old Mary Ann Stevens, outside a Ramada in Jacksonville, Florida. Although Butler was ultimately found innocent of the crime, from a legal

consistency or inconsistency of the information provided in the confession. A false confession is an admittance of guilt in a crime where

TAMMY MARQUARDT – Case Summary Tammy Marquardt born in Toronto was a victim of sexual abuse till the age of 17. She moved out and on May 19th 1991 her son Kenneth was born and she married Rick Marquardt. On the afternoon of October 9th, 1993, Tammy went to check on her son Kenneth, and she found Kenneth tangled in the sheets gasping for breath. Kenneth suffered from serious health issues including asthma, pneumonia and epilepsy and three days later, Kenneth passed away. Tammy was the exoneree and

Iraqi Case Study: Strategy of Interrogation After the events of September 11, the United States found itself in position never seen before. Unlike the last few hundred years of conventional warfare, the United States was fighting a new type of war. This war was not waged against other nations but rather on small groups with a similar ideology. The country needed to quickly adapt to the new threat and how it would eventually overcome it. One such issue came under the guise of how the U.S. would

False Confessions: Fear of being alone and social susceptibility BreAnn Lindsey University of Central Oklahoma Author Note BreAnn M. Lindsey, Department of Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma Correspondence concerning this proposal should be addressed to BreAnn M. Lindsey, College of Education and Professional Studies. Department of Psychology, University of Central Oklahoma, 100 North University Drive, Edmond OK, 73034. Email: blindsey5@uco.edu Abstract The project replicates and extends

COERCIVE INTERROGATIONS AND THE ELICITATION OF FALSE CONFESSIONS The effectiveness of the coercive methods used in modern interrogation lack rigorous scientific consideration and have been accepted without satisfactory scrutiny. Previous studies on alternative methods of interrogation are underdeveloped and ‘sparse,’ as scope exists to reform current practices to ensure that ‘interrogation processes (are) ecologically valid and focused on the correct processes.’ This essay posits that the accusatorial

There are several reasons to why people falsely confess to crimes. This will include different analysis from studies carried out by criminal psychologist in order to understand why certain people are prone to falsely confessing to crimes. There are different characteristics to understanding why people confess falsely confess to crimes such as; individual differences, personal and situational factors, and Ethnicity. This essay also aims to identify what leads certain individuals to confess to crimes