The Role Of Deprivation And False Confessions

Among various arrests, people who are put in jail or prison due to their confession must make them a proven criminal, right? Unfortunately, not everybody who confesses to a crime is in fact guilty. A false confession is an act of confessing to a crime that the confessor didn’t commit. That creates a conflict involving the individual being accused and the trust towards police interrogation. For instance, after nearly eight years in prison, Nicole Harris sued eight Chicago police detectives, alleging that they coerced her confession (Meiser Para.2) The police detectives incorrectly informed Harris in failing “the polygraph test” indicating that she lied about not committing the murder of her son, Jaquari Dancy (Meiser). She felt that there was

According to “Sleep Deprivation and False Confessions” and “False Confessions to Police and their Relationship with Conduct Disorder, ADHD, and life adversity,” it tackles on the causes of false confessions and who is more prone to such factors. Based on “The Role of Deception” and “How the Police Generate False Confessions: An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room” by Trainum, James L, it focuses on the methods police interrogators use to coerce a false confession. Lastly, ways to prevent false confessions from recurring will be recommended through “Miranda Rights Comprehension in Young Adults with Specific Language Impairment,” “Miranda Rights and Wrongs: Matter of Justice,” and “Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations.” Due to these reasons, the modern justice system needs to be updated and enforced to avoid similar cases of coerced false

A test was conducted in Iceland at an undisclosed high school and university to figure out who were involved in a false confession and what could’ve led to it; It consisted of 11,388 students ranging from the age 16-24 years old (Gudjonsson,Sigurdsson,Sigfusdottir, & Young, Pg.697). 48% males and 51% females were part of the test whereas the 1% didn’t identify their gender. For the testing to proceed, a questionnaire was created to understand the participant’s family background, education, mental health problems, antisocial behavior, free time activities and attitudes. As a result, it was shown that among the participants who were interrogated, the false confession was seen mostly in males and common among the younger participants of 17 years or younger. The majority of the false confession were due to police pressure; As well, there’s a relationship between false confessions and ADHD variables such as being diagnosed with ADHD, on medication for ADHD, and meeting DSM-IV screening for those systems (Gudionsson, Sigurdsson, Sigfusdottir, & Young, Pg.698). In addition, another experiment was conducted to test if people can falsely confess under poor conditions such as sleep deprivation and intoxications (Frenda, Berkowitz, Loftus, & Feen, Pg.2047). In the experiment, 88 participants were placed in different laboratories with a computer and keyboard; They were given instructions to not press the