PSYC 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Multiple Choice, Perspiration, Polygraph
28 Feb 2017
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Potential solutions to a problem of false confession. It means that everyone can see it its not one sided: video recording interrogations, r. v. oickle (cid:523)(cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:524) practices, provides a means by which courts can monitor interrogation. Deters police from employing methods likely to lead to untrustworthy confessions. Enables courts to make more informed decisions re: interrogation practice and trustworthiness of confession: time limits to interrogations. Limiting time tends to decrease false confession (sleep deprived: (cid:498)appropriate adult(cid:499) safeguard. Protecting those who are not an adult: youth criminal justice act: section (cid:883)46, conditions for confession by youth aged (cid:883)(cid:884)-17 to be deemed (cid:883). Police explained individual"s rights in age-appropriate language: person given opportunity to consult counsel/parent, statement made in presence of counsel/parent voluntary: The ethics of psychologists and interrogations: 1985 american psychological association and american psychiatric. 2015 american psychological association implicated in development and application of torture and coercive interrogations. Participants: 60 police officers, 60 members of the public.
