Exam 3: The Psychology of Police Investigations

An innocent suspect is interrogated for 18 hours without food or water.The suspect is told by the investigator that he can get up and leave once "he comes clean." The suspect is exhausted and confesses.What type of confession has just occurred?

The model of police interrogation used in North America is ___________ and the model used in Britain is ___________.

Recent research in Canada has examined the degree to which people understand their right to silence and their right to legal counsel (Eastwood & Snook,2010).What did these researchers find?

List five crime scene behaviours that are assumed to relate to organized offenders and five crime scene behaviours that are assumed to related to disorganized offenders.

Richard Kocsis and his colleagues (2000)conducted a study on the accuracy of professional profilers relative to groups of psychologists,police officers,students,and psychics.Results of this study suggest that:

Rigel is one of the most commonly used geographic profiling systems.Who developed this system?

Which of the following statements is true with respect to the findings of King and Snook's (2009)examination of Canadian interrogations?

List the two primary goals of a police interrogation.In addition,describe the three types of false confessions that can result from North American-style police interrogation techniques,making it very clear how they differ from one another.

Maximization techniques are also called _______ tactics; minimization techniques are also called ________ tactics.

Good cop-bad cop strategies are equivalent to:

When questioned by police,John confesses to a burglary that occurred on his street.Later,when his defence attorney is preparing his case for court,John declares the confession he gave to the police was false.This is an example of:

The first known criminal investigation where criminal profiling was used was:

The RCMP's VICLAS system was primarily established in an attempt to remedy the problem of:

Distinguish between a retracted confession and a disputed confession.

Define what is meant by minimization and maximization techniques and provide one example of each technique.

What is the name of the interrogation model that is most often taught to police officers in North America? Briefly describe the model's three stages.

In a study by Kassin and Keichel (1996),students were brought into the lab in order to examine the phenomenon of false confessions.Subjects were accused of committing a crime (hitting a forbidden computer key)that they had in fact not committed.Two factors were manipulated: the participant's level of vulnerability and whether false evidence was presented.What did this research find?

? While interrogating Sam Suspect,Officer Sipowitz states,"Look,they should never leave liquor in a store window to tempt honest guys like you and me." Officer Sipowitz's statement is an example of which category of interrogation tactic?

According to Pinizzotto and Finkel (1990),the process of profiling described in equation form is:

One of the major goals of a police interrogation in North America is to: