PSY 474 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Geographic Profiling, Offender Profiling, Psy
9 Sep 2016
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Psy 474 forensic psychology t. umina syracuse university. Police investigations: police rely on witnesses, victims, and suspects to fill in details about crimes, who was involved, what happened, where and when did it happen how did it happen, why did it happen. In north america, there are generally two goals of a police investigation: (1) obtain a confession (2) gain information that will further the investigation (e. g. , the location of evidence) If the police do not have any evidence against the suspect at this time, then the interrogator can hide this fact and, if necessary, pretend that such evidence exists. Presents real or fake evidence. (2) theme development: psychological hemes are developed that allow the suspect to justify, rationalize, or excuse the crime. For example, a suspected rapist may be told that the victim must have been asking for it given what she was wearing. Potential problems with the reid model of interrogation: deception detection.
