SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Change, Crime Prevention, Reid Technique

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3750
• Professor: Michelle Dumas

Document Summary

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. Going at his or her own pace: convert oral confession to a written confession, written as soon as possible to minimize risk of contradictions, written confession is a prosecutors case, question and answer format. Ethical considerations: trickery, manipulation, use of false evidence. Lack of empirical support: claims are not backed up with research. Innocent and guilty people act differently: 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: wrongful convictions.