PSYC 3020 Midterm: Midterm 2 notes.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3020
• Professor: Dan Yarmey

Document Summary

Confession evidence is considered a prosecutor"s most potent weapon (kasin) and police often go to great lengths to obtain confessions. In north america a confession must be backed up with hard evidence. It is more likely that a person who has confessed to a crime will be prosecuted and convicted than those that did not. One of the goals of police interrogation is to gain information from the suspect that furthers the investigation (kasin) Police interrogations were coercive in the past (eg brown vs. mississippi 1932) when whipping was used to obtain a confession. 1980"s police used a stun gun to extract a confession. >these overt acts have been replaced by more subtle, psychologically based interrogation techniques, such as lying about evidence, primising lenient treatments and implying threats to loved ones (leo, Box 3. 1 the mr. big technique (smith, stinson, patry -2009)