Topic

Intervention Proposal: Bluffs and Coercion Leading to False Confessions

Instructions

In Week Three, you created a literature review around the scenario that you selected in Week One. For the Week Six assignment, you will create an intervention proposal that contains a professional recommendation for the chosen case study. The Intervention Proposal should incorporate any feedback that the instructor provided in the Week Four Literature Review or Week Two Annotated Bibliography assignments.

In a 10- page paper (not including the title page or references page) the student will:

Briefly restate the problem from the chosen case study.
Compose a thesis statement that contains the student’s professional recommendation. The thesis statement should be located near the end of the second paragraph of the report.
Explain the relevant theories and empirical studies that have led to the student’s professional recommendation. The explanation must include evaluations of seven to eight, peer-reviewed articles from the Annotated Bibliography that was created in Week Two. At least one of these articles must be about a specific empirical study. In addition, the explanation must:
- Evaluate each article (comparing and contrasting them with the other articles) and answer the following questions:
  - What was the researchers’ research question?
  - What was their hypothesis?
  - How many participants did they have?
  - Was the research design method appropriate for that particular hypothesis? Was it valid?
  - Did their findings support the hypothesis?
  - What are the implications?
  - What are the limitations?
- Discuss the opposing sides to the student’s recommendation and explain:
  - Why it is relevant.
  - Why it should be considered.
  - Why it should be discounted for this recommendation.
- Discuss any limitations or gaps in existing research.
Restate the professional recommendation in one to two concluding paragraphs.

Answer Preview

Existence of false confessions was not clear until DNA procedures became admissible in court proceedings in 1990s. Following the escalation of evidently proved false confessions, some scholars, sociologists, and psychologists have conducted studies whose results mostly indicate that many of annuls on guilty verdicts and acquittals defying false confessions were majorly police-induced. Emergence of studies indicating otherwise raises concern over the need to integrate numerous evidence-based studies to present substantial proof concerning polices’ inducing factor to prompt suspects into making false confessions. Predominantly, it is recommendable that courts set psychologists or independent crime evaluators to help assess the viability of false confessions during the interrogation processes as well as court proceedings, particularly in cases where DNA samples are not part of evidences. The aim of this study is integrate information from numerous studies in order to proof how police investigators play a great role in leading suspects to make false confessions.

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