Police interrogations: Social influence under Pressure As the events of the Central Park jogger case unfolded, questions mounted: Why would five boys—or anyone else for that matter—confess to a crime they did not commit? What social influences are brought to bear on suspects interrogated by police? Many years ago, police detectives would use brute force to get con- fessions. Among the commonly used coercive methods were prolonged confine- ment and isolation; explicit threats; deprivations of sleep, food, and other needs; extreme sensory discomfort (eg., by shining a bright, blinding strobe light on a suspect’s face); and assorted forms of physical violence (eg., forcing suspects to stand for hours at a time or beating them with a rubber hose, which seldom left visible marks).
Today, the police are required by law to warn suspects who are in custody and not free to leave of their Miranda rights to silence and an attorney. It is not always clear when someone is in “custody,” however, and the courts have not provided much guidance. To demonstrate just how subjective this judgment can be, Fabiana Alceste and her colleagues (2018) staged the apparent theft of a wal- let, at which point a security guard questioned a waiting research participant who happened to be in the room at the time. As recorded by a hidden camera, the guard conducted either a relaxed information-gathering interview or a tense accusatory interrogation. Was the participant “suspect” free to leave? Indepen- dent observers who later watched these recorded sessions saw the suspects as freer to leave the gentle interview than the harsh interrogation. But the suspects themselves did not feel free to leave either situation—even when were explicitly advised that they could.
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