“I'm willing to speak.” “On a double homicide?” “Ha! Yes, officer.” “That you refused to tell anybody else about?” “Make your eyes any bigger and I could pop them out.” “Why?” The boy fixed them with a grisly stare. His head leaned as he slumped into the hard plastic chair. “I'm… I guess I just want to. It's like, telling someone something to make conversation.” “That’s real ugly, son.” “You're ugly.” “Nice jokes you got there, kid. Back to business. The homicides.” The boy looked around. His voice was critical, “Wait, where even are we?” “Interrogation room.” His jaw worked, “No.” “No?” “This is a cellar. Smells like wine in here.” The interrogator smirked slightly. The boy frowned and rose his chin to the challenge. “Why did you drag me out …show more content…
Now tell me who.” “Your butler and you-” “Yes? Yes! Who!” “Your parents.” “Ding ding ding ding!” The interrogator found the strength to break his nose. “How could you do this! How could you plan this! You're fifteen! You. Are. Fifteen! Fifteen!” the interrogator screeched, wringing them by his dingy dress shirt. “Hold- hold on there, officer!” the boy stuttered gleefully “They are your blood!” “I still have to tell you about your girl!” The assault eased. “My girl.” “Yes yours. Before you beat me to death, of course.” “I would like to know,” The officer said disarmed. “I would. I would.” “Then take a seat… Cool, now tell me why.” “ ‘S hard to the explain,” the officer muttered. “I'd be willing to understand.” The officer talks as if the boy hadn't said a word, “I was just sitting there at my desk looking at the report, analyzing things, then I look at her in the pictures. Lifeless, mangled, but beautiful.” “I'm sorry. You said beautiful?” “So, so beautiful. Marked, but even in this dirty basement, she was so clean. I was all about her life and I realized the details from the files wouldn't be enough.” The boy's eye face crinkled in distaste. The officer looked passed
After reviewing the article “Inside Interrogation: The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions”, it became very evident the huge problem with interrogations and false confessions in the criminal justice system is with false confession. Jennifer T. Perillo and Saul M. Kassin crafted three distinct experiments to try and better understand false confessions and how trues the actual numbers in real life are. What Perillo and Kassin were trying to prove is that “the bluff technique should elicit confessions from perpetrators but not from innocents” (Perillo, Kassin 2010). What is called the “Bluff Technique” is an interrogation technique that uses a sort of threat or hint that there is certain proof that a person will think is more of a promise for
“Just weeping. I can still hear her weeping now sometimes. I know the exact sound of it, like a note you hear or a song that keeps spinning around in your head and you can’t forget it.”
Daisy’s face was filled with fear as she slowly stood up and walked around the room. “She was…she was killed?” Daisy questioned in a trembling voice.
Many strategies for interviewing and interrogating individuals have been explored over time. Some seem to withstand the test of time, others falter. Two such methods that have been used over time have been the Reid Technique, developed by John E. Reid with the assistance of Fred E. Inbau, and the technique of hypnosis. The similarities and differences of all techniques are what determine their success or failure. An examination of the Reid Technique and hypnosis will reveal why one is still used today and the other is rarely used.
For this book report, I decided to read Hugo Münsterberg's On the Witness Stand. This book contains essays on psychology and crime and eyewitness testimony. Today this book is used as a reference for many issues in forensic psychology. For this report, I focused on two chapters of the book: Illusions and the Memory of the Witness. I am going to first summarize the two chapters I read then talk about what was going on at the time this book was written. I will then report some of the research in the book, and finish with my opinion on how this book has contributed to the literature and how it relates to the current knowledge of forensic psychology.
"I... found out all about you like I know your parents and sister are gone somewheres and I know where and how long they’re going to be gone, and I know who you were with last night..."
of the story he comes to a conclusion that it is not a ghost that
There are a many challenges that an officer faces when it comes to interviews and interrogations. Some challenges include learning if someone is a possible suspect through the information received in an interview, preparation for the interrogation, issues with legality of the Miranda warnings, deception by the officer, emotional balance, and most importantly, preventing false confessions.
Power and control are two factors in peoples lives that can change how they treat others and what actions they will take to keep the control. The experiment is a prison experiment designed to test how far humans would treat others based on how much control and power they are given. The experiment will take two weeks to determine how individual’s behavior changes with power. Power changes peoples behavior a great amount and many times it is negative. In the experiment, guards are given the power to control prisoners and they take advantage of their power by using force, cruelty and receiving pleasure.
“When we were captured, I was brought to a judge. The judge asked me to tell him the truth about what was happening between us.” Julia said.
Enhanced interrogation methods include hypothermia, stress positions, waterboarding, and sleep deprivation. In each of these cases there have been studies such as, the one concocted by Dr. Allen Keller, of Bellevue NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. Dr. Keller once said, “Some victims were still traumatized years later. A man who had experienced waterboarding couldn’t take showers and panics when it rains.” In January 22, 2009, President Obama, signed an executive order that requires both the U.S. military and paramilitary organizations to use the Army Field Manual as the guide of getting information from prisoners, moving widely away from the Bush administration tactics. In this manual none of these enhanced interrogation methods are acceptable. If indeed, any person or persons were caught using any of these outlawed interrogation methods, they would be subject to a fine of 10,000 dollars and a life term of imprisonment. This is true even if you showed the intent to commit torture, but never actually committed the crime. If there is sufficient evidence to prove intent, then you are subject to 25 years of imprisonment. The means to not justify the necessity when it comes to enhanced interrogation. It can lead to false information, if someone is falsely accused of a crime and therefore detained by the military with no evidence and then tortured; in most scenarios an innocent person will admit to their accusation to avoid the undeniable pain of torture. There has to be due process and torture should and never will be the answer. All in all, enhanced interrogation is a technique used to induce information from possible suspects; however, this technique is immoral in ways such as, but not limited to, impacting the victims life, f...
What was my role in a mock trial? I was a juror on both days to be exact. My job was to take notes and listen to both sides of the case, the prosecution and the defense team. I thought that being a juror would be fun, but it’s really not. Its hard to judge somebody knowing that your decision would prove this person guilty or not guilty, and knowing that your decision will change this person’s life forever. This is what happens to a juror/ jury when they’re listening to a case and then have to decide on a verdict.
”But I do know I let him down. He’s gone and it’s my fault. What are we going to do Frank?“ Desperation flowing through her words.
History in police interrogation proves the system has come along away, yet there are still concerns about how police officers interrogate suspects. In the video, Larry Rothi is interrogated by detectives for nearly 7 hours. According to Magid (2001), interrogations usually involve some level of deception. For instance, as shown in the video, the detectives deceive Mr. Rothi into thinking that a witness, his neighbor, was at the scene and documented what he saw, which later in the video we find out is supposedly Mr. Rothi firing a bullet. They further delve into the fictional story and tell Mr. Rothi that the friends whom he lives with say they saw him fire the gun as well. By deceiving the suspect, the interrogators are successfully creating
There are many aspects that make up a successful interview or interrogation. An investigator does not become a skilled interviewer or interrogator over night. Training and experience are vital to becoming skilled at interviewing and interrogation. Experience is the best teacher, conducting interviews and interrogations is the only way to become more skilled. In this paper I will explain all the aspects that make up a successful interview. I will also explain the difference between an interview and an interrogation.