People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened
People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened
www.psychologicalscience.org People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened
Lab-based research shows that adults can be convinced, over the course of a few hours, that as teens they perpetrated crimes that never actually occurred.
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False confessions are a serious problem and the police should not be allowed to lie their asses off, but they are in many places like the US (which coincidentally has ridiculous prison stats and a for profit prison system that's pretty much legalized slavery, happy Juneteenth I guess).
Literally legalized slavery in most states. The 13th Amendment explicitly allows slavery as punishment for a crime. Some states have amended their own constitutions to remove that wording, but only a few.
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