PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Confabulation, Mental Disorder, Offender Profiling
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Would (cid:455)ou (cid:272)o(cid:374)fess to a (cid:272)ri(cid:373)e (cid:455)ou did(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)it: martin tankleff. After 18 years in prison, the confession was deemed inadmissible. There was no evidence to prove that he killed his parents: he had no history of antisocial behaviour, as soon as he got out of the interrogation room, he was saying that he was told to confess. Low iq: mental state, cultural issues, threats. Michael crow case: crow is 14, and a young girl is around 12, the brother and his friend were thought to be the perpetrators. Stephanie crow was killed in the middle of the night. A false confession that results from the desire to escape coercive interrogation or gain benefit promised by the police: used to escape interrogation, gain a benefit, avoid punishment, the most common type of false confession, coerced-internalized false confessions. Paul ingram: a sheriff in washington state.
