PSY344H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Central Park Jogger Case, Suggestibility, Guided Imagery
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Lecture 4: psychology and the law; interviews, interrogations, and. Interrogation: mark was interrogated for a shooting; 3 hours of interrogation (feeling trapped and confined. Minimized the extent of the crime the victim was a known drug dealer. Reinforcement and encouragement - he had it coming and you did us all a favor . Made it sound like his conviction was a sure thing and that they had evidence that they didn"t. Tell the truth and all of this will go away : derrol raped and murdered by kenneth paton. After hours of interrogation three guys (jon abonney (17 years old) and 2 others) said that they had walked her home and they each individually confessed to the murder. But all three confessions were false (1 said that he stabbed her, the 2nd said that he hit her on the head, and the third said that he must of blacked out and couldn"t remember how he did it).
