PSYC 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Actual Innocence, Innocence Project, Intellectual Disability
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Interrogations and false confessions: conclusions from psychological science. The compliance of delivering shocks to another person is surprising and inconsistent with common sense davis & leo 2010. John reid & associates inc - false confessions are rare phenomena: 99. 6% of convictions involving confessions are true and correct. Innocence project: dna testing with new tools to provide innocence: provide factual innocence to people who have been wrongfully convicted, eyewitness misidentification is 77% of the cause, false confessions 23% Drizen & leo (2004) analyzed 125 proven false confession cases in the us: 32% of the sample were juveniles, 19% were described as mentally retarded, 10% were described as mentally ill . The rest no document vulnerability: > 80% involved murder charges. Incarceration length if convicted: 11% plead guilty to the crime, 81% of those going to trial were convicted based on false confession evidence. , 30% served 1 to 5 years, 34% served 6 to 10, 10+
