Forensic Report Examining Potential False Confession.
Recently, Kassin and Gudjonsson (2004) described the psychology of confession evidence, review case studies, archival reports, cor-relational studies, and laboratory and field experiments, and they conclude that police interrogation tactics have, can, and will likely continue to produce false confessions due to a variety of factors.
Kassin and Gudjonsson have thoroughly reviewed the liter-ature on confessions, providing scientific evidence bearing on just about any question you might ask about the subject, as well as identifying the very real problem of false confessions and recommending some solutions. They use case studies.
The present chapter will provide a thorough summary of the psychological aspects of interrogation techniques and false confessions. After reviewing the Central Park Five case, the chapter introduces a brief summary of the history behind interrogation laws and procedures, as well as how the study of false confessions has evolved over the years.
Suspect Interviews and False Confessions Gisli H. Gudjonsson1 and John Pearse2 1King’s College, London, and 2Forensic Navigation Services Ltd. Abstract In this article, we review two influential methods of police interviewing practice and their associations with false confessions.
Saul Kassin and Gisli Gudjonsson, in their article for Scientific American Mind, “True Crimes, False Confessions,” argue that “society should discuss the urgent need to reform practices that contribute to false confessions and to require mandatory videotaping of all interviews and interrogations” (2005, p. 26).
This volume, a sequel to The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony which is widely acclaimed by both scientists and practitioners, brings the field completely up-to-date and focuses in particular on aspects of vulnerability, confabulation and false confessions.
Apart from these, reasons such as mental illness, political coerced confessions, and voluntarily false confessions are very common. Although there are various causes, the biggest cause if torture (Gudjonsson, 2003). Discussion False confessions have led to various crimes being misrepresented and the wrong person being punished.