PSYC 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Peter Sutcliffe, Confabulation, Offender Profiling
20 Mar 2017
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Police interrogations: main goal is to obtain a confession of guilt from the suspect. Ex. exaggerating the seriousness of the offence, making false claims. Use of the reid model in actual interrogations: are used but frequency of use varies across techniques/steps. Interrogation practices and the courts: decision to admit confession evidence into courts rests on the trial judge. An alternative to the reid model: peace model, stands for: Evaluation: based on an interview method known as conversation management, which encourages info gathering more than securing a confession, 50% of all suspects confessed to crimes before and after the peace model was introduced. = less coercive tactics does not necessarily mean more confessions: goal: to obtain compete and accurate information about the crime in question. Inability of people to detect discrepancies between what they observed and what has been erroneously suggested to them: factors associated with mental state, such as severe anxiety confusion, or feelings of guilt.
