Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Psychopathic traits, compliance and likelihood of falsely confessing / Kendra A. McGuffin Nespoli.

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Canadian Policing Research

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1 online resource (viii, 116 pages) : illustrations

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Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2013

Summary

"False confessions present a unique problem for the justice system as they are difficult to prove false and can lead to devastating consequences. Research in the area of police induced false confessions has identified two main types o f risk factors: personal (i.e., suspect’s age, sex, and personality) and situational (i.e., police interrogation techniques) that contribute to an individual’s risk of falsely confessing The present study investigated three personality variables: (1) compliance, (2) psychopathy, and (3) anxiety, and their relationship with participants’ self-reported likelihood of falsely confessing to police during interrogation. Few past experiences with police interrogation were reported by undergraduate students. Compliance and anxiety were positively correlated with likelihood of falsely confessing while psychopathic traits were negatively correlated with compliance and uncorrelated with likelihood of falsely confessing. The relationship between anxiety and other personality variables are discussed along with implications for policing and criminal justice procedures."--Page ii.

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