PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reid Technique, Offender Profiling, Legal Technicality

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2400
• Professor: Adelle Forth

Document Summary

Outline of sections: false confessions, police interrogations and the reid technique, problems with reid and confession admissibility, peace model of investigative interviewing, criminal profiling, problems with criminal profiling and geographic profiling. Not based on actual knowledge of facts that form content. Exaggeration or minimization of role in a crime. Self-report: ask offender if they ever confess to something falsely. Need to relieve guilt: whether its real or imagined. Cannot distinguish fact from fantasy (resulting from mental illness often) Ex, (charles lindbergh; during course of investigation more than 200 people confessed. ) New york 1989, central park jogger case, 4-5 youths all confessed and served 5-10 years. Paul ingrim accused of satanic ritual, hypnotized to (cid:498)remember(cid:499) Students had to type words as read from out loud. False evidence: half had the accomplice confirm they hit the key. Confabulation: make up details to help confession. 2 students; 1 is a real participant 1 is an accomplice. Guilty condition provide help on (cid:498)individual(cid:499) problem.