This paper is concerned with examining the dierences between people who confess and those who deny oences during a police interview. The main hypothesis under investigation is that psychologically vulnerable suspects are particularly likely to confess. This paper is also concerned with identifying v
Police interviewing: The identification of vulnerabilities
β Scribed by John Pearse
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 907 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1052-9284
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β¦ Synopsis
Failure to identify potential psychological vulnerabilities of people entering the Criminal Justice System continues to present a serious problem for the police and other agencies. This paper reviews some of the problems involved which include: the nature of the handicap itself, current guidelines and definitions, and somewhat arbitrary legal interpretations by the courts. An experiment is described in which police officers chose not to identify someone as vulnerable or 'at risk', despite information in all conditions having been biased towards eliciting a positive judgement .
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