SOC 4900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reid Technique, Crime Prevention, Social Change
26 Nov 2015
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Guidelines of how police can gain information from a suspect. 9 step procedure where you break down the suspects resistance. Increase the chance that the person wants to confess: direct positive confrontation, we know you did it , even at this stage, a good tactic is to make up evidence. Technique of neutralization: having suspect orally relate details of offence of the time. Ethical considerations: trickery, manipulation, use of false evidence. Lack of empirical support: claims are not backed up with research. No evidence to support this: the alternative higher proportions of denial. No evidence that innocent people will not accept this. Innocent people confess to crimes they did not commit. Nonverbal behaviour and deception: cues, accuracy rate, look for posture, eye contact, facial expressions, response delivery. People are not skilled at distinguishing between truthful and wrongful behaviour. 57-60% accuracy of human lie detectors: should shift a confession to information-gathering interrogations. Requires undercover police officers to interrogate suspects.
