Introduction to Forensic Psychology: Suggestibility and False Confession

Introduction to forensic
psychology Suggestibility and
false confession

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Research on investigating interview.......................................................................................4
Strength and weakness of research.........................................................................................4
Skills in investigating techniques...........................................................................................5
Reason for false confession....................................................................................................5
The factor which influences a suspect for a false confession.................................................6
Recommendations..................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Forensic psychology refers to the specialty within psychology which includes the different
characterize activities and can provide professional psychological expertise to the legal and
judicial system. This is the one that can allow a police officer to investigate some crim who
needed to get an understanding of criminal psychology. Here, forensic psychologist includes the
application of psychological theory which assist in better criminal investigative which are
associated with helping to understand criminal behavior and the problem which are associated
with them. There are several times when people get false confessions due to different reasons.
These may include either of fear, to protect their loved ones, due to mental disorders other
sometimes they feel that they have did a crime that is wrong in reality. In this, there is a need to
get ensure the understanding of the suggestibility and false confession which are associated with
taking care of effective response. There is extent about the senior police manager who use those
theroy and psychological implication that can help in getting better help in reducing and
identifying the reason of false confession. This knowledge are delivering to provide and create
awareness about the reason which can lead to create the risk of false confession. Here, the
psychologist provides the information and suggestion to polish in investigating any crime. They
also provide some external support to understand criminal behavior and their understanding. In
this, essay there is a discussion about investigating the crime and interviewing false confessions
which are generally provided by the criminal where a psychologist can use their suggestion and
information to influence the learning that are associated with false confessions (Gaines, (2018)).
MAIN BODY
There is a certain type of people who confess to a crime that they have not committed. There
are a large number of cases in which they falsely confess a crime in which they have not even
been involved in. There are many examples of such types of certain cases in which false
confession has been done due to different reasons. There can also be a chance that some of the
evidence suspect someone who are not correct and due to some circumstances they get an arrest.
Due to long-hour investigation and use of different techniques in the investigation, there is a high
risk of getting false confession. Here, is an example of a young mother who call the polish about
the killing of her children by some individual but due to getting blood spot on the mother cloth
police arrested her. Due to a long investigation, the mother confesses the killing of her child. But