PSYCH 3CC3 Lecture 5: Psych 3CC3 – Lecture 5.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 3CC3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

False confession: information in the confession is false: jurors place a lot of credibility to false confession even if there is evidence of coerced (they may say don"t, but they do conviction rates are higher, people have hard time understanding why someone would confess to something they didn"t do, innocence project work with convicted felons in cases where they are certain there has been a miscarriage of justice (cid:224) in 30% of cases in which innocence of a convicted felon is established, there was a confession by the individual way in which it was obtained, retracted confession: confession may be true, but suspect repudiates it (could be false or true, disputed confession: is confession legally admissible as evidence admissibility in court of law is questionable based on the, voluntary false confession: suspect confesses falsely without coercion, coerced compliant false confession: confession made under duress, coerced internalized false confession: confession is false, but suspect comes to believe it.