Essays on Interrogations

International Human Rights Law and Prisons in Africa

Term Paper 4500 words

Introduction

The International Centre for Prison Studies’ World Prison Brief, in its report suggested that over 10 million individuals are formally incarcerated in prison and correctional facilities around the world. According to the same Brief, even more are held in either military facilities where they are detained or in security or police facilities without any specific legal process underway. There are three categories that the United States’ (U.S). Government has for humanitarian and human rights concerns as they relate to these individuals who are housed in a detention facility that is; 1. unsafe in terms of ...

Abstract

The criminal justice system in the United States provides Constitutional guarantees for all who are subject to the laws of the land. The three most controversial aspects of this system today are Search and Seizure, arrest, and interrogations. While these three aspects are the foundation of police action throughout the nation, there are several unresolved problems in how each of these processes is in use today. The presence of the law is not always the same as upholding it. The cases which made the case for the citizens are moving into obscurity with modern variations of the problems making ...

Introduction

The criminal justice system in the United States is complex and has a trove of advantages for the defendant in comparison to several other nations. The rights include the right to an attorney and the right to remain silent during a police interrogation. Apart from these rights, the process to find someone guilty and sentence that person is a tedious process. Unlike justice systems which rely on circumstantial evidence, the American Justice system insists on the presence of physical evidence to corroborate. In addition, a lengthy process ensures checkpoints in different areas to prevent convicting innocent people of crimes ...

A false confession is where a person is compelled to admit the commission of a crime which they never committed.

People admit to crimes they did not commit due to reasons such as incompetence due, say, to a mental disorder or being a minor, police coercion, contamination, and misclassification (Leo 332). Other factors responsible for false admission of guilt include duress, intoxication, mental impairment, diminished capacity, ignorance of the law, actual infliction of harm, fear of violence, misunderstanding of the situation and threat of harsh sentences (Innocence Project Online). According to Ryan, Police officers can avoid false confessions by videotaping their interrogation of suspects from the beginning to the end and setting reasonable time limits for their interview of ...

Response to Mariana Mireles

According to Kassin, Sara, Jennifer and Perillo, the terms ‘interrogation’ and ‘interviewing’ are usually used recklessly as though they were interchangeable and synonymous (39). As Mariana points out, interviews and interrogations differ in terms of their goals. While an interview is a formal conversation that aims at eliciting information from another person whereas interrogation involves a systematic questioning of a person suspected of having committed a crime. Interrogation aims at obtaining confessions of the person being interrogated. However, further to this, an interview involves an objective and neutral attitude on the part of the interviewer who cannot accuse the ...

The article Police Interrogation from a Social Psychology Perspective discusses a stage of the investigative process called the interrogation of suspects. The article deals with two interrogation techniques from a social psychology perspective. It discusses the effects of these techniques and provides the overview of the techniques. Thus, the research questions posed in the article are as follows. What are the effects of the interrogation? How to conduct it in the best way (Hartwig, Anders Granhag, & Vrij, 2005, p. 381). The issue raised in the article is based on the social psychology theories. The article also addresses a legal ...

The Hollywood blockbuster, "Zero Dark Thirty" premiered in 2012 and became an instant hit. Ever since its release, the film stirred a great deal of media debate as it was not just about killing of bin Laden and the film makers, but involved foreign-policy, political and national-security journalists and the use of torture. Ever since the 9/11, America lives under the threat of another such attack. There have been a string of documentaries and films on the subject of government secrecy and counterterrorism programs. There are tough questions about how far should the US be willing to go in ...

Combating Terrorism: Extraordinary Renditions and Advanced Interrogations

Terrorist attacks have been the fiercest, threatening the national security of most countries. Various measures have developed to combat the crime of terrorism by different countries. The most common way of disciplining criminals is the use of judicial procedures where the suspects are proved guilty by the criminal courts and appropriate disciplinary measures applied based on the crime committed. However, other measures are used exclusively by some governments to punish the suspects of terror attacks. Among these methods is the use of extraordinary renditions, which involve surrendering the criminals to another country for interrogation and detention (Horowitz & Cammarano, 2013). ...

Assignment 7B- Video Review

Assignment 7B- Video Review Police interrogations and false confessions have been an issue in the system of law and order. It is not news that innocent people have been sentenced to prison for crimes they never committed. Several factors have affected this decision by the police and law enforcement agencies. In the case on “PBS Confessions,” the story of the Norfolk Four has become notorious and highlighted in the phenomenon of false confessions. The video encased the 1997 crime of the murder and rape of Michelle Moore Bosco, a housewife in Norfolk, Virginia (Foundation, 2010). She was alone in ...

The issue of police interrogations has been pertinent for more than forty years. In 1966, the famous Miranda ruling noted that interrogations were usually done in privacy, an aspect that resulted to secrecy; hence, courts could not be aware of the events that take place in an interrogation room when dishing out justice. Despite an increased amount of research since the Miranda ruling, challenges persist in the administration of justice due to lack of empirical data. Research has been on an exponential trajectory, with five issues coming out strongly: distinguishing truthful and deceptive statements, Miranda rights to inform custodial ...

Let us back track to the stories of the horror that gripped the United States on September 11, 2001. Almost every American can recall stories of the deadly attack that shook the country in ways that remain vividly in the minds of many persons. Now, take a look at the global news as countries such as France and Belgium have tasted the horror that gripped the United States in 2001. It is clear that terrorists continue to wreak havoc on the whole world. These terrorist attacks occur all over the world and despite the fact that no attack has ...