Topic
Police Investigatory Bluffs and Coercion
Instructions
- State your thesis statement that is your professional opinion.
- Briefly explain the organization of the paper. For example, if there is a major controversy in this literature, briefly describe the controversy and state that you will present research supporting first one side, and then the other. Or, if three methodologies have been used to address the question, briefly describe them and then state that you will compare the results obtained by the three methods.
- Begin by broadly discussing the literature. Then, narrow your review to the studies that are most related to your research question. Your literature review should resemble a funnel – wide (broad) at the top and narrow (focused) at the bottom.
- Ensure that at least one article (but no more than two) supports the opposing side to your thesis.
- Describe studies in enough detail that the reader has a general sense of the study’s hypothesis, methods, and findings.
- Evaluate the studies. Do not provide article summaries; rather, provide descriptive and scholarly evaluations of the research.
- Discuss implications of studies (i.e., your judgment of what the studies show and where to go from here). It is common (and often better) to combine the description and evaluation sections. If you do combine them, do not forget to evaluate them.
- State your conclusion that reaffirms your professional opinion.
Answer Preview
Bluff tactic is one of the majorly used form of interrogation to get suspects prove their guilt or innocence. However, in some circumstances, the investigators pretence of having evidence waiting for further testing without making actual implication of the suspects may actually lead to false confessions (Perillo & Kassin, 2011). Perillo and Kassin argued that confronting the accused with false evidence puts suspects in two mechanisms capable of making them make false confessions. Firstly, there has been prominent evidence that confessions of people are generally as a way of acting within the motives of social compliance, particularly by feeling trapped by the perceptible strength from the evidence held against them that in turn leads to perception of there being no other escape gateway. Secondly, there has been evidence-based research indicating that false evidence plays a role of being highly influential form of misinformation and, therefore, is capable of creating confusions as well as leading people to doubt beliefs of their own to internalize guilt while fabricating memories regarding crimes they actually did not commit.
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