Human Factors In Wrongful Convictions False Confessions

Dr. Saul Kassin explains how interrogation techniques can cause innocent people to Dr. Jennifer Dysart explains how memory affects identification and how to prevent eyewitness misidentifications. USC Gould School of Law Prof. Dan Simon discusses his book, In Doubt: The Psychology of the Criminal Justice Process ... The popular Netflix series 'Making a Murderer' has brought heightened attention to the impact of Dr. Sherry Nakhaeizadeh explains how people tend to interpret evidence in a way that confirms their assumptions and ... Retired Detective Jim Trainum explains the harm of focusing on a single or limited police or prosecutorial theory and seeking only ...

Why would someone admit to a crime they didn't commit? It sounds impossible — yet it happens more than we realize. This video ... Professor L. Song Richardson explains how personal experiences shape our views and can result in unintentional bias. Why would an innocent person accused of a crime confess? Saul Kassin, a psychology professor at the John Jay College of ... Dr. Elizabeth Loftus discusses how memory is constructed and how it is susceptible to being manipulated by It's hard to believe people would confess to a heinous crime they did not commit, but they do -- especially teenagers - -and there is ... This a 1 minute 18 second Public Service Announcement bringing awareness to the topic of

If you think only guilty people confess to crimes, think again. Innocent people are often Saul Kassin discusses the remarkable phenomenon of A thorough examination of how innocent people may end up in jail through