Our system openly embraces certain police lies, such as undercover lies and lies to induce confessions.
But Japanese police commonly use prolonged interrogations, threats, and other ill treatment to induce confessions, especially from those who are believed to be guilty but who refuse to confess.
According to a report released on Sunday, in more than half of the capital trials in Iraq monitored by UN investigators, judges "systematically ignored claims by defendants that they were subjected to torture to induce confessions".
A New York Times report says that, even then, it was appreciated that the techniques induced false confessions from the American personnel on which it was tried.
In the mid-nineteen-nineties, Kassin devised an experiment to explore how easy it was to induce false confessions.
Professional interrogators came forward under Bush to denounce torture as unproductive, even self-defeating, for it can induce phony confessions and misleading statements, sending investigators or counterterrorist teams on fruitless diversions.
In the detention camps of colonial Kenya, a tough regime of physical and mental abuse of suspects was implemented from 1957 onward, as part of a government policy to induce detainees to obey orders or to make confessions.
Iraq's application of the death penalty is particularly egregious, human rights advocates say, because convictions are often based on confessions induced by torture or the testimony of confidential informants.
When a minor involved in terrorist activity is arrested, the law is clear: no torture or humiliation is permitted, nor is solitary confinement in order to induce a confession – which challenges the veracity of the accounts in your article.
Hearsay and torture-induced confessions were all permitted, as was the word of unnamed Afghans to whom we paid thousands of dollars per "terrorist" caught. .
Sometimes a confession induced by a promise from police or prosecutors to recommend a reduced sentence will indeed result in a plea arrangement that provides for less than the maximum sentence.
