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Oct 1, 2014 · In recent years, DNA exoneration cases have shed light on the problem of false confessions and the wrongful convictions that result. Drawing on basic psychological principles and methods, an extensive body of research has focused on the psychology of confessions.
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May 8, 2020 · The Innocence Project indicated that 28% of its overturned wrongful convictions involve a false confession. From an objective standpoint, it is reasonable to think that no rational person would confess to a crime he did not commit.
Read more about our work to address wrongful conviction. False confessions occur more than most people think and result from a variety of factors, including the use of coercive and deceptive tactics.
Feb 22, 2021 · In this review, the story of the development of the science during this “golden era” is told through the three established error pathways to false confessions and wrongful convictions: misclassification, coercion, and contamination.
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False confessions make for the leading cause of wrongful convictions in homicide cases. More than two-thirds of the DNA-cleared homicide cases documented by the Innocence Project were caused by false confessions. There have been 317 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States.
What causes people to give false confessions? (Tribune) Case Examples. The Dixmoor Five; The Roscetti 4; Lavelle Burt; Franklin Thompson; Remedies. Reforms that would have prevented most of the documented Illinois false confessions are these: Limiting the duration of interrogations.
In the past two decades, hundreds of convicted prisoners have been exonerated by DNA and non-DNA evidence, revealing that police-induced false confessions are a leading cause of wrongful conviction of the innocent. In this article, empirical research on the causes and correlates of false confessions is reviewed.
