PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: True Confession, Factorial Experiment, Random Assignment
27 Feb 2018
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Police interrogation: goals: obtain confession and gather relevant information, confession is usually most damaging evidence. Canadian charter of rights and freedoms: right to counsel and to be informed of right without delay, right to remain silent, right to telephone calls (as many as necessary to retain and instruct counsel) Reid model: most common training program in canada and the u. s, three stages: If suspect is thought to be guilty, a 9-step accusatorial interrogation procedure is implemented to secure confession: confession must be voluntary, defendant must be competent at the time of confession. Investigator bias: even if interrogators do occasionally persuade suspects to confess, there is danger of false confessions. Voluntary false confessions: willingly offered, may be motivated by desire for attention, generalized guilt, or to protect someone else. Coerced-compliant false confessions: confesses despite awareness of innocence, most common type of false confession, caused by coercive interrogation tactics.
