Potential Problems and Challenges of Confessions for the Criminal Justice

question 17

Multiple Choice

Potential problems and challenges of confessions for the criminal justice system include:

• A) Police officers may use coercive psychological or physical methods to extract confessions.
• B) The danger of a false confession resulting in a true confession is virtually nonexistent.
• C) Wealthy and educated persons are more likely to talk to the police, thus benefitting from lesser charges of lighter sentences agreed to during plea bargaining.
• D) It speeds up the adversarial process of the criminal justice system, expediting convictions.

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