False Confessions
Crime
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57m
In U.S. interrogations, a powerful psychological tactic gets suspects to confess, often in unrecorded rooms. Trained interrogators have been hugely successful at securing confessions, frequently with little regard for the suspect's actual guilt or innocence.
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