False Confessions

I Did It?! Why Innocent People Confess

It is hard to imagine why someone would confess to something they didn’t do. To voluntarily provide information that results in incarceration, embarrassment, loss of employment, restitution or loss of freedom seems unfathomable. However, not only are there several cases of this actually occurring but it continues to happen throughout the widespread field of interrogations. Most confessions provided by a guilty subject include their rationalization for their actions as...