Innocence project
A false confession involves a narration of how and why a crime took place. It includes an admission to committing a crime, which the confessor did not commit. However, false confessions are difficult to establish, attributed to the fact that it is hard to prove the confessor’s innocence. False confessions can be categorized into different types. The first one includes voluntary false confession, whereby the confessor willingly gives a false confession, either due to little or no cohesion from the police. Another type of false confession is the compliant false confession. Here, a false confession is given to ...