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False confessions

False confessions. Can interrogations lead to false confessions?. Today… . Consider how false confessions could occur based on what we have looked at so far Explore the key study relating to false confessions

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False confessions

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  1. False confessions Can interrogations lead to false confessions?

  2. Today… • Consider how false confessions could occur based on what we have looked at so far • Explore the key study relating to false confessions • Use real life false confessions to develop at least 4 evaluation points regarding false confessions

  3. Where did it all start??? • The issue of false confessions and miscarriages of justice came to prominence recently with the case of Sean Hodgson, who in 1980, while in prison for theft, told a prison chaplain that he had murdered a barmaid, Teresa de Simone. He repeated the statement to a prison officer, but he was lying and in 2009, after 27 years in jail, he was released after DNA evidence proved his innocence

  4. Key Study ~ • Gudjohnsson et al (1990) – A case of false confession To document a case of false confession of a youth who was at the time distressed and susceptible to interrogative pressure.

  5. The Gudjohnsson Suggestibility Scale Aims to measure how susceptible a person is to police coercion

  6. Points to consider… • What effects could false confession have on the individual? (consider short term and long term) • What influences could be associated to why people provide a false confession? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkLHXKHb1Vc • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbzlLadbMDQ

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