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Chapter 2

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A robbery suspect is apprehended and being read his Miranda rights by the police woman arresting him. The suspect is most likely to _____ his Miranda rights.
Waive
When a confession exists, juries ________ come back with a conviction.
Very often
According to the textbook, police prefer a confession because:
Confessions save time.
Which of the foloowing is NOT likely to lead to a flase confession?
Suspect's confidence.
Hugo is interrogated alone and told repeatedly that his guilt is corroborated by both physical evidence and eyewitness accounts. This approach most likely embodies the following strategy used by police during Hugo's interrogation:
Social isolation and certainty of guilt.
There are several vulnerabilities to making a false confession. The most dangerous vulnerability, according to the text, is:
Youth
Jillian had often suffered from a delusional behavior disorder. When brought in for questioning, she quickly confessed to a crime that she had taken no part in. The term used for this type of false confession is:
Internalized-voluntary confession.
The tendency to hold an individual's dispositional causes such as personality responsible for his or her behavior is reffered to as the:
Fundamental attribution error
Police may use a variety of evidence ploys during interrogation. This is possible because:
Police can lie during interrogation..
Jack was extremely uncomfortable with admitting to a crime against a minor so he kept denying any involvement. The interrogator has been very understanding and nice, and suggested that Jack had committed the crime without realizing the victim was a minor, since she looked so mature and acted like an adult. This situation illustrates a combination of which influence strategies inherent in the Reid technique?
Certainty of guilt and minimization of culpability.
Ultization of a team approach to interrogation often takes the form of a ___ approach.
Good cap-bad cop
When the police utilize a good cop-bad cop approach, the suspect is likely to:
Confess to the good cop when alone with him
Because of a long, exhausting interrogation, Kathryn just wanted the questioning to stop, so she confessed to the crime knowing that she did not commit it. This type of confession is called an:
Instrumental-coerced confession
The purpose of exculpatory scenarios is to:
Increase the probability of a confession through offering a justification for the actions.
Desiree has been sitting in the interrogation room for a while. She is not sure how long the interrogation can last or even if she can ask for food and water. She gets increasingly uncomfortable and worried. This situation illustrates which one of the four basic influence strategies inherent in the Reid technique?
Loss of control
Before the 1930s, an interrogator in the United States would be likely to use all of the followinf actions to alicit confessions, EXCEPT:
Impisoning the suspect's kids.
After an intense interrogation process, MAtthew
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