Tag: snitching
Posted on Wed Mar 25, 2009 at 11:57:19 AM EST
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The results of the first behavioral study to investigate whether people will provide false secondary confessions raises significant concerns about the use of such evidence when informants are offered incentives. The study was conducted by psychological researchers at the University of Arkansas.
A "secondary confession" is a polite name for snitching. A news article on the study is here. The study is now published in the Journal of Law and Human Behavior in an article titled “Snitching, Lies and Computer Crashes: An Experimental Investigation of Secondary Confessions.”
Bottom line: "[A]n incentive increased the rate of false rather than true secondary confessions."[More...]
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