PSYC 242 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: False Confession, Offender Profiling, Geographic Profiling
26 Oct 2018
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Ch03 summary psychology of police investigations (focus 70-78 only: the primary goal of many police interrogations in north american is to obtain a confession from the suspect. Police officers sometimes use the reid model of interrogation to accomplish this goal. This model advocates the use of psycho-logically based interrogation tactics to break down a suspect"s resistance to telling the truth. A false confession is one that is either intentionally fabricated or is not based on actual knowledge of the facts in a case. A retracted confession is simply an individual"s statement that his or her confession is false. Voluntary false confessions occur when someone voluntarily confesses to a crime he or she did not commit without any elicitation from the police. Coerced-compliant false confessions are those in which the suspect confesses to a crime, even though the suspect is fully aware that he or she did not commit it.
