Interrogating and Interviewing: Is There Really a Right Way? During the 1940s, a new form of interrogation was introduced to the criminal justice system of America. The Reid technique, shared and taught by John E. Reid, became popular among police officers, anti-violence movement groups, and the general public due to its non-violent nature and satisfying results. The idea of the method is to interview the suspected person in a non-accusatory manner, and if that person is guilty then the nine steps
person being interrogated, so they can admit to being guilty. When doing this officers tend to fabricate evidence against the innocent person and tell them that they already have enough information to arrest them. The officer will then convince the suspect that confessing is the only way out and they will get a reduce punishment if they do so (Leo, 2009). In a study made by Kassin & Kiechel 75 subjects were told that they had evidence that proved them guilty of ruining the experiment. Upon hearing this
But 25 years into his sentence it was found that he was wrongly convicted and the eyewitness had testified for having a burglary charge dropped against him. An eyewitness was responsible for putting Hatchet in jail. Eyewitnesses are able to put a suspect behind bars for simple misdemeanors to serious felonies. Eyewitnesses can be incorrect which can lead to the wrong people being put in jail. Eyewitness’s memories can be contaminated
On December 26, 1996, the body of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was discovered by her father John Ramsey in the basement of their Boulder Colorado home. Twenty-one years later this case has still not been solved. The reason this case has gone cold is due to the lack of the Boulder Police Department who allowed individuals to walk the scene in which became tampered and contaminated. Casarez (2016). This is why it is important for investigators to protect the crime scene in order to avoid contaminating
Torture: Justifiable or Not? Torture, as an interrogation device, has been used by many, mostly because its efficiency in extracting information from its victim. But what does torture truly do? Many despises the crude method of itself, many questioned its legitimacy of gathering information. Regardless of its prohibition by the international law, torture is commonly used illegally. For this reason, in this essay I argue that torture should not be justified because it is not trustworthy, in inflicts
result in the contamination of the evidence even if the cause of contamination is done unintentionally. This procedure is implemented to establish the process for the “chain of evidence” ownership. The location of the scene may be comprised from suspects and or witnesses that may also have information of an evidentiary matter (Inbau & Finney, 1936). It is important to get statements
“The Usual Suspects” movie, directed by Bryan Singer, exposed to its audience in a plot twist ending, that it was most ‘unusual’ suspect’, who was “the devil”. A character branded as stupid and crippled was revealed to be Keyser Soze, the character in the film who kills his own kids and wife to show the mob who is in control. Not to mention that he also kills members of the mob and their kids, parents, and friends; burned down their houses; and the people who owed them money. He’s an immoral criminal
i. How does the relationship between these two characters develop across the course of the novel? ii. Where were the turning points in this relationship? What accounted for these changes? iii. How does the relationship between these two characters contribute to the story in terms of plot, theme, or the writer’s craft? The relationship between the two characters started off with Daisy predominantly in control as the two of them starting a detective society with Daisy as the chairman and Hazel as
Torture can be defined as “forbidding only physical pain equivalent to that ‘accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death,’ or mental pain resulting in ‘significant psychological harm of significant duration, e.g., lasting for months or even years’” (White 464). People have been torturing each other for years, and it will continue to exist even though there are “international agreements that prohibit torture” (White 462). Although torture
discovered. He took lives of 5 women in the Whitechapel area. Detectives are still trying to make discoveries to this day on who the actual killer is. The mystery behind the gruesome, cannibalistic murders from Jack the Ripper can be summed up by two suspects: Aaron Kosminski and Severin Klosowski.