I am teaching a course in Forensic Psychology this term. This is the first time I have taught it, though I worked in the field for three years. This is a subject that particularly lends itself to film and television illustrations, and I and the students (I think) have been having fun with it.
One of the more interesting topics has to do with False Confessions. Since the early 1960s most police departments have taught their detectives to use some variation of what is called the "Reid Technique", developed by John Reid and published in his classic: "Criminal Interrogation and Confessions" (currently in tis 5th edition). This is pretty much what we see enacted in almost every police procedural - and it leads to a shockingly high level of false confessions. Reid is still alive; early on he denied that the false confession rate was very high, now he admits it is high, but he blames it on poorly trained cops, not his technique. I am looking for a particularly good example of this technique in action in a good TV episode, but I do not have time to review the many episodes of the likely suspects to find one in particular. My preference would be to find a good example of Pembleton with a suspect in "The Box" (the idea of "The Box" - or modern interrogation room, is itself a creation of the Reid Technique). I am wondering if anyone can think of a particularly good episode that illustrates Frank at his best (worst, for my purposes). Or, in the alternative, a good example of the same kind of thing from another program (L&O or The Closer or whatever)? I would like to have something ready by next week. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
