PSYC 3600 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Reid Technique, A Confession, Miranda Warning
15 Jan 2017
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Guilty suspects usually resist confessing their crimes. Police try to break down this resistance through the process of interrogation. Interrogation techniques have become increasingly sophisticated, moving from direct physical violence, to covert physical torture that leaves no trace, to purely psychological means of coercion. These powerful pools sometimes enable police to persuade guilty suspects to confess their crimes. At other times, these same tools lead innocent suspects to confess to crimes they did not commit. The interrogation processes include compliance, persuasion, obedience to authority, and decision making under stressful conditions. Crime rates have fallen over the last 30 years in canada. Police are nevertheless tasked with solving a huge number of crimes annually, with just under 2 million criminal incidents reported to police across the country in 2012 alone. The canadian police strength data, calculated as the number of police officers per 100 000 people in a given area, was 199 officers in 2012.
