PSYCH230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Serial Crime, Geographic Profiling, Offender Profiling

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH230
• Professor: John Rempel

Document Summary

Psychology and law chapter three: the psychology of police investigations. Police interrogation a process whereby the police interview a suspect for the purpose of gathering evidence and obtaining a confession. Minimizing techniques soft sell tactics used by police interrogators that are designed to lull the suspect into a false sense of security. Maximizing techniques scare tactics used by police interrogators that are designed to intimidate a suspect believed to be guilty. Deception detection detecting when someone is being deceptive. Investigator bias bias that can result when police officers enter an interrogation setting already believing that the suspect is guilty. False confessions a confession that is either intentionally fabricated or is not based on actual knowledge of the facts that form its content. Retracted confession a confession that the confessor later declares to be false. Disputed confession a confession that is later disputed at trial. Voluntary false confession a false confession that is provided without any elicitation from the police.