Deck 6: Deception in Police Interrogations: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Question 1

Which of the following values has not been a focus of the courts in determining voluntariness?

A) reliability
B) freewill
C) fairness
D) honesty

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The first case in which the Court ruled that confessions had to be voluntary, not forced, was in _ , in which three defendants were beaten until they confessed.

A) Miranda v. Arizona
B) Ashcraft v. Tennessee
C) King v. City of Los Angeles
D) Brown v. Mississippi

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following police interrogation techniques is not presumptively coercive?

A) taking on role of counselor
B) promise of leniency
C) sleep deprivation
D) lengthy interrogations

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which of the following is a characteristic of a coerced-internalized false confession?

A) suspect desires notoriety
B) suspect concerned with maximizing short-term gains
C) suspect comes to believe he/she committed the crime
D) suspect seeks to self-punish

Question 5

Which of the following is not an example of fabricated evidence?

A) telling the suspect that an accomplice has identified him or her
B) telling the suspect that an eyewitness has identified him or her
C) staging a line-up in which a coached witness identifies the suspect
D) having an officer pretend to be someone else

Question 6

The good cop/bad cop technique is associated with what type of police interrogation?

A) fabricated evidence
B) role playing
C) minimization of crime
D) misrepresenting identity

Question 7

Miranda warnings must be given whenever there is a:

A) custodial interrogation
B) noncustodial interrogation
C) custodial interview
D) noncustodial interview

Question 8

In which case did the Supreme Court uphold confession evidence obtained through the use of a "jail plant"?

A) Frazier v. Cupp
B) Ward v. State
C) Brown v. Mississippi
D) Illinois v. Perkins

Question 9

In which case was physical coercion first ruled impermissible?

A) Ashcraft v. Tennessee
B) Arizona v. Fulminante
C) Lisenba v. California
D) Brown v. Mississippi

Question 10

The decision in Miranda holds that:

A) police must advise a suspect of his or her right to remain silent
B) police must advise a suspect of his or her right to an attorney
C) police must advise a suspect of his or her right of noncompliance
D) a and b only

Question 11

Investigator response bias occurs when an interrogator:

A) misrepresents their identity
B) promises benefits to a suspect to obtain a confession
C) is generally suspicious of the suspect's likelihood of deception
D) all of the above

Question 12

Failure to question suspects without issuing the Miranda warning allows for the exclusion of:

A) statements given by the accused
B) physical evidence obtained as a result of statements given
C) both a and b
D) neither a or b

Question 13

Individuals who subscribe to the due process model emphasize safeguards that protect the innocent.

Question 14

The Miranda court decision specifically outlined what interrogation techniques were legal.

Question 15

Behavior analysis has been shown to be an effective determination of guilt or innocence.

Question 16

A confession has a more compelling influence on jurors than eyewitness testimony.

Question 17

The "slippery slope" argument connects lying at the interrogatory stage of policing to other stages of policing.

Question 18

Misrepresenting the nature or seriousness of an offense is an illegal tactic no longer used by police.

Question 19

According to the text, the use of vague and indefinite promises in obtaining confessions still continues to be permitted by the courts.

Question 20

Direct promises of leniency in exchange for confessions have been deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

Question 21

Coerced-compliant false confessions are those in which an innocent person comes to believe that they have committed the crime.

Question 22

Through a process known as mirroring, interrogators interview multiple potential suspects.

Question 23

Police interrogators generally tend to believe suspects who they are interrogating.

Question 24

The Reid technique is the most popular and frequently used interrogation style.

Question 25

It has been estimated that adults falsely confess at higher rates compared to juveniles.