The police force for Criminology
Normile, Christopher, J. & Scherr, Kyle, C. Police tactics and guilt status uniquely influence suspects’ physiologic reactivity and resistance to confess. Law and Human Behavior Vol. 42 (6), 497–506. Accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000306497
The authors hypothesized that false confession cases of false confession are experienced in more than one-quarter of wrongful convictions involving DNA. The author posits that about 28 percent of wrongful convictions are innocent but are accused of falsely and are made to make false confessions regarding their circumstances and conditions.
Furthermore, the authors have hypothesized that the interrogators mostly use ambiguous language and alternative tactics that are different from minimization approaches, which appear to be provocative and very confrontational. The author has pointed false evidence ploys as an example of provocative tactics applied by interrogators. They are said to present fabricated evidence against the suspects to make the suspects appear guilty.
In the research, the author used a sample space of 178 students from one of the significant universities in the Midwest. Out of the sample space, 13 students were eliminated from the experiment for failure to adhere to the rules and regulations of the investigation. Consequently, the research was finally conducted with a final population of 161 respondents. As a result, the final sample comprised 161participants. All the participants used in the experiment were young adults bellow 22 years of age. The population structure is consisting of whites, Asians, African Americans, and Native Americans. In terms of gender, the majority were women.
The participants commenced by reporting their sex, age, height, and race. The researchers also recorded the body shapes of the participants. At the end of the experiment, each participant was allowed an opportunity to respond to an open-ended questionnaire that was used to gauge their levels of suspicion.
From the experiment, it was established that seven participants gave out an accurate suspicion score after the open-ended questionnaire. The rest of the findings were similar to the entire participant. The study also established that suspicion was varying by race and level of education. Non-natives were more suspicious because, in most cases, they were victimized.
Works Cited
Normile, Christopher, J. & Scherr, Kyle, C. Police tactics and guilt status uniquely influence suspects’ physiologic reactivity and resistance to confess. Law and Human Behavior Vol. 42 (6), 497–506. Accessed at http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000306497