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Risk Factors Regarding Interrogations

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Risk factors regarding interrogation techniques more commonly associated with false confessions include being young, suffering from a mental illness, cognitive impairment, and suggestibility. These are not factors police take into account or test for before they start an interrogation. The Reid technique has the interrogator telling the suspect they did commit the crime, gives them reasons why they would have done it, gives reasons that explain away the suspects denial, seeming to be sincere and understanding of the suspect, taking advantage of the suspects growing weary, and by having them choose a good reason to commit the crime. These procedures would increase the chances of obtaining a false confession from someone with a risk factor

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