- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
- Memory Processes and Influences
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Jury Decision Making Processes
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
- Medical Education and Admissions
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills
- Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Torture, Ethics, and Law
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
- Authorship Attribution and Profiling
- Education Discipline and Inequality
- Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
George Mason University
2022-2025
Abstract This is the protocol for a Campbell systematic review. The objective to assess effects of interrogation approach on confession outcomes criminal (mock) suspects.
The techniques used to interrogate individuals suspected of a crime can profoundly impact their decisions confess, cooperate, or disclose information. Research using different methods suggests that two prevailing interrogation approaches—accusatorial and information-gathering—differentially outcomes. However, confession, cooperation, information disclosure are ultimately the person’s decision, yet few studies directly examine perspectives about how affect decisions, none U.S. sample. This...
Take Home Messages: The techniques used to interrogate criminal suspects can profoundly impact their decisions confess, cooperate, or disclose information. source article assessed how interrogation strategies characterized by humanity, rapport, confrontation, and dominance predicted outcomes in a sample of 249 incarcerated individuals the United States (U.S.). Survey respondents who reported experiencing humane were more likely cooperate completely with police, incriminating information,...
The source article found differences in rates of true and false confessions when comparing information-gathering interrogation approaches with accusatorial approaches. Information‐gathering can be more effective eliciting from guilty suspects decreasing innocent suspects. Accusatorial techniques such as lying, bluffing about evidence, minimization increased the number decreased compared to
School administrators who investigate student misconduct are offered training in accusatorial-style interrogation techniques that frequently used the U.S. to interview and interrogate adult criminal suspects. We review research showing use of such accusatorial be problematic, especially with juveniles, as its coercive nature can lead an innocent individual falsely confess. Highlighting on adolescents' cognitive social immaturities, we specifically discuss unique challenges present when...
Adolescent suspects' developmental immaturity renders them more susceptible than adults to unreliable and involuntary confessions. Defense attorneys can mitigate youths' interrogation-related vulnerabilities; however, no quantitative studies examine attorneys' views on juvenile interrogations confession evidence. We surveyed 137 defense regarding the role of counsel, parents, school administrators, resource officers (SROs) in confessions whether client age indigent status related...
Little research has examined the gendered nature of wrongful convictions and how intersectionality gender race impacts perceptions exonerees support for reintegration services. With two vignette experiments, we assess laypeople's female or male, Black White (Study 1 2) who were wrongfully convicted due to official misconduct a false confession in varying child-victim cases. When violent homicide 1), viewed less favorably than females males least favorably. However, no-crime Shaken Baby...
Some exonerees receive compensation and aid after being exonerated of their wrongful convictions, some do not. Looking beyond differences in state statutes, we examined possible reasons for biases receiving (via statutes or civil claims) other reintegration services. More specifically, how two unique types false admission guilt (i.e., confessions guilty pleas) could be associated with biased outcomes procurement outcomes.
Abstract Research Summary Using data from the National Registry of Exonerations, we examined how presence confession evidence impacts prosecutors’ tendency in order to (1) commit misconduct any form (e.g., permitting perjury and witness tampering) (2) specifically withhold exculpatory (i.e., favorable defense). We assess these relationships particularly context wrongful convictions by guilty plea an innocent individual false [FGP]) or verdict at trial. show confessions increased likelihood...
Abstract Police officers are often trained to use the Behavior Analysis Interview (BAI) detect deceit, but it is based on faulty indicators of lying that may be especially problematic for juveniles due developmental immaturities. Juveniles, young adults, and adults were assigned guilt or innocence conditions, read a criminal scenario, self‐reported their likelihood providing truthful deceitful responses during hypothetical BAI. All participants indicated they would give more than deceptive...