ch 2
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politefight on October 14, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 occupational stressors | irregular work schedule, exposure to human suffering |
| organizational stressors | lack of career development, excessive paper work |
| criminal justice stressors | ineffective system, unfavourable decisions |
| public stressors | distorted press accounts, ineffective referral agencies |
| physical consequences of stress | ulcers, weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure |
| psychological consequences of stress | depression, drug use, suicide, PTSD |
| job performance consequences of stress | low morale,absenteeism, citizen complaints, reduced productivity |
| criminal incident stress debriefing | voluntary aid offered officers who are secondarily exposed trauma |
| why is CIS-debriefing voluntary | risk of developing PTSD |
| confessions (canada) | voluntary; admissible in court; suspect understands rights; competent |
| false confessions | fabricated confession not based on actual facts which form its content |
| factors contributing to false confessions | low cognitive ability, mental state, younger persons, false evidence, belief of false promise |
| coerced-complaint false confession | most common, often recant; results from the desire to escape interrogation or gain benefit |
| voluntary false confession | provided without elicitation from police |
| factors for voluntary false confession | fame, delusional, pathological guilt, protecting someone else, internalized crime |
| emotional suspect (feels distressed) | minimization techniques - minimize crimes moral seriousness, be sympathetic, suggest reasons, praise/flattery, condemn others (victim) |
| unemotional suspect (feels nothing) | maximization techniques - try to catch lie, associated suspect with crime, no point to deny, play co-offenders against each other |
| innocent behaviour in interrogations | spontaneous, forceful, eye contact, lean forward, assertive posture |
| guilty behaviour in interrogations | hesitant, defensive, makes qualified statements. |
| best case scenarios | crime was an accident, unintentional, etc. |
| worst case scenarios | crime was a cold blooded murder, no remorse |
| confirmation bias | problem with reid model; already assuming suspect as guilty so only sees guilty cues and ignores innocent cues |
| detecting deception | problem with reid model; police are more confident than actually accurate, not completely supported |
| suspect vulnerabilities | problem with reid model; in any way the suspect was not seen as fit - current mental state, intoxicated, sleep deprived, ESL, cognitive deficits |
| interrogating in canada | isolation from support systems, small room, confident contradictions, establish trust, flattery, play suspects against each other, minimize seriousness |
| boomerang effect | having someone confess and then recant it because of interrogation conditions |
| unintended consequences of interrogation | inadmissible confessions, PTSD from coercion, undermining the public |
| false confessions done most by | young, mentally retarded, mentally ill |
| compliance | cause false confessions; tendency to go along with authority |
| suggestibility | cause false confessions; tendency to internalize information |
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