People Confess to Crimes they didn't do!? by Alita Abraham https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i Hey Folks, Welcome to the Discussion Board. *Read *Gain *Share en-us 2020-06-23 13:46:04 UTC 2026-03-01 19:58:53 UTC hello@padlet.com http://www.abajournal.com/images/mag_images/0718FCONFESS-2opener.jpg TalkIt https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638910595 How could someone really claim that they have done it, when they have no clue about it? What provokes them to? What are the psychological reasons for such false confessions? Who are vulnerable? Is it to be blamed the functioning of the law and enforcement entities??]]> 2020-06-24 15:35:28 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638910595 What makes them vulnerable? TalkIt https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638924268 "The psychology behind false confessions more difficult to comprehend than suicide," 
said Kassin, a distinguished professor of psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. 

His research helps to explain why people implicate themselves. He's found, for example, that vulnerable suspects, including teenagers, people with intellectual impairments and those with mental illness, are more likely to make false confessions, especially if they are under pressure from interrogators. Police are permitted to lie about evidence and imply promises and threats through subtle but lawful tactics.

Kassin has also found that prolonged, sleepless interrogation sessions and trauma can lead innocent people to believe they committed a crime.
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]]> 2020-06-24 15:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638924268 ‘I’ll help you boys as much as I can': How eagerness to please can result in a false confession TalkIt https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638926736 Read about the article (pdf below):
This article describes the case of a 25-year-old man (Mr J) who confessed during police interviewing to having set a series of fires whilst he worked as a voluntary fireman.

The factors that determine whether or not the substance of a false confession is going to become internalised are not fully understood. The two main factors appear to be the type of interrogation techniques utilised by the police and the psychological vulnerabilities of the individual.


]]> 2020-06-24 15:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638926736 Former Georgia Death Row Prisoner Is Released after 43 Years for a Murder He Did Not Commit, Due to New DNA Evidence - May 27,2020 TalkIt https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638932574 He initially confessed to the crime, but his attorneys said that detectives coerced the confession and took advantage of Gates’ naivete and low IQ.

The highest rates of false confessions occur among the intellectually disabled, juveniles, and the mentally ill. 

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]]> 2020-06-24 15:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638932574 Expert: Teens in Jones’ case apt to falsely confess - March 12, 2020 TalkIt https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638985014 An expert told the N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission on Thursday that the five teenage boys convicted of killing Nathaniel Jones, NBA star Chris Paul’s grandfather, were highly susceptible to making false confessions.

“This case has the most indicators of false confession that I have seen so far,” said Cleary, who testified before the innocence commission by video.

]]> 2020-06-24 16:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638985014 Is Chicago Really the ‘False Confession Capital’? - September 22, 2017 TalkIt https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638987614 Innocence Project co-founder Peter Neufeld, in a 2012 “60 Minutes” segment called “Chicago: The False Confession Capital,” described the rate of false confessions in the city in stark terms: “Quite simply, what Cooperstown is to baseball, Chicago is to false confessions. It is the Hall of Fame.”

]]> 2020-06-24 16:43:17 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638987614 False Confessions: Causes, Consequences, and Implications (Read more article link below) TalkIt https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638994686 Causes of False confessions

The Misclassification Error
The first mistake occurs when detectives erroneously decide that an innocent person is guilty.

The Coercion Error

Once detectives misclassify an innocent person as a guilty suspect, they often subject him to an accusatorial interrogation. 

Vulnerable Suspects

Even though psychological coercion is the primary cause of police-induced false confessions, individuals differ in their ability to withstand interrogation pressure and thus in their susceptibility to making false confessions.

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]]> 2020-06-24 16:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/638994686 https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/640254743 2020-06-25 17:41:08 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/640254743 https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/640285305 According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 27 percent of people in the registry who were accused of homicide gave false confessions, and 81 percent of people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities did the same when they were accused of homicide.]]> 2020-06-25 18:12:54 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/640285305 https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/640292376 Sometimes people confess crimes that they didn't do  in order to save their loved ones like parent accepts that he did a crime in order to save his son and protect him from the further legal consequences at a very young age .....this could be out of the bonds between family and also the son may had to commit a crime under some circumstances where he had no choice.....  so if we look from one side this may be right as any parent when they reach such a situation may do it ,we never know but that may have its own consequences maybe in later stages of life he may try to commit ever bigger crimes on the hope of his parents to come and save him.]]> 2020-06-25 18:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/640292376 https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/640305294 In some cases, people have falsely confessed to having committed notorious crimes simply for the attention that they receive from such a confession. ... People may also confess to a crime they did not commit as a form of plea bargaining in order to avoid the risk of a harsher sentence after trial.]]> 2020-06-25 18:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/talkit/m55s673cz7i6y6i/wish/640305294