Week 2 - Interrogations and Confessions

Question 1

Why would someone waive their Miranda rights?

Question 2

What are the issues with the Miranda rights?

Question 3

Why do police want confessions?

Question 4

What does Kassin’s study on the impact of a confession in the courtroom show us?

Question 5

What are the 3 most common reasons leading to false confessions?

Question 6

What is the Reid Technique and why is it so popular?

Question 7

What are the 9 steps of the Reid Technique (brief overview to establish problematic tactics included)

Question 8

How are minimisation and maximisation involved in the Reid Technique and what is an example of each?

Question 9

Why is there such a high potential for error with the Reid technique?

Question 10

What are the 3 main types of errors that occur in interrogations and what is an example of each?

Question 11

What were the findings in Brandon Garret’s (2011) study on DNA exonerations?

Question 12

What are the 3 types of false confessions? Explain each one

Question 13

What were the 5 stages of Kassin & Kiechel’s (1996) study and what was the study aiming to test?

Question 14

What did Kassin & Kiechel’s study show us about false confessions and interrogation tactics (even with participants being in a controlled and comfortable environment)?

Question 15

What is confabulation and how does it contribute to false confessions?

Question 16

What do Nash & Wade’s (2009) studies show us about the impact of false evidence in interrogations?

Question 17

What are 5 individual factors that increase vulnerability in interrogations? What study supports this?

Question 18

How does sleep deprivation effect false confessions? What study showcases these effects?

Question 19

How is impulsive cognitive style impacted by sleep deprivation in Freda et. al’s study?

Question 20

What are 4 situational factors that increase false confessions?

Question 21

How can a false confession be disproved? (4 ways)

Question 22

What are the main issues with false confessions? (3)

Question 23

What are some ways we can prevent false confessions? (7)

Question 24

What is the main issue with recording confessions?

Question 25

How can psychological research aid in developing interrogation tactics?

Question 26

What are the steps of the PEACE interviewing technique?

Answer 26

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Question 27

What are the main differences between the Reid and PEACE interview techniques?

Question 28

What is the fundamental attribution error (FAE) and how does it contribute to false confessions?

Question 29

What are the overall goals/methods of both accusatory style investigations and information gathering styles?

Question 30

What are the possible issues with information gathering styles?

Answer 30

unconscious biases

Question 31

Why do jurors often convict on the basis of a false confession even if they think that the confession was probably coerced and could be false?

Question 32

Should police be allowed to lie to suspects during interrogations in the interest of solving crimes? Should interrogators be permitted to tell suspects that their fingerprints were found at the crime scene if this is not true? Are some types of lies acceptable but other types not acceptable?

Question 33

Which changes — if any — should the legal system be required to make to reduce the incidence of false confessions? What can be done to make it easier to detect false confessions?

Question 34

Are there ways to help jurors recognize a false confession as false?