PSYC 331 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3,5,6: False Confession, Geographic Profiling, Offender Profiling
Document Summary
Police interrogation: a process whereby the police interview a suspect for the purpose of gathering evidence and obtaining a confession. Reid model: a nine-step model of interrogation used frequently in north america to extract confessions from suspect. Minimization techniques: soft sell tactics used by police interrogators that are designed to lull the suspect into a false sense of security. Maximization techniques: scare tactics used by police interrogators that are designed to intimidate a suspect believed to be guilty. Deception detection: detecting when someone is being deceptive. Investigator bias: bias that can result when police officers enter an interrogation setting already believing that the suspect is guilty. False confession: a confession that is either intentionally fabricated or is not based on actual knowledge of the facts that form its content. Retracted confession: a confession that the confessor later declares to be false. Disputed confession: a confession that is later disputed at trial.
