False confessions and individual differences: The importance of victimization among youth
The principal aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between false confession during custodial interrogation and history of victimization among young persons. The participants were 10,363 students in further education in Iceland (mean age 17.6-years, range 15-24). The participants comp...
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ftkingscollondon:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/b8c39f3b-7f30-454f-a7e4-e95a4c3b7035 2023-05-15T16:50:37+02:00 False confessions and individual differences: The importance of victimization among youth Gudjonsson, Gisli H. Sigurdsson, Jon Fridrik Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora Asgeirsdottir, Bryndis Bjork 2008-12 https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/false-confessions-and-individual-differences-the-importance-of-victimization-among-youth(b8c39f3b-7f30-454f-a7e4-e95a4c3b7035).html https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.010 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Gudjonsson , G H , Sigurdsson , J F , Sigfusdottir , I D & Asgeirsdottir , B B 2008 , ' False confessions and individual differences: The importance of victimization among youth ' , Personality and Individual Differences , vol. 45 , no. 8 , pp. 801 - 805 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.010 article 2008 ftkingscollondon https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.08.010 2022-10-14T10:02:15Z The principal aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between false confession during custodial interrogation and history of victimization among young persons. The participants were 10,363 students in further education in Iceland (mean age 17.6-years, range 15-24). The participants completed questionnaires relating to mental health, self-esteem, victimization, delinquency, peer delinquency, drug use, attitudes towards school, and parental support, They also reported the extent of their police involvement and if they had ever falsely confessed to police. Almost one-fifth (19.8%) of the total sample stated that they had been interrogated by the police in relation to a suspected offence, of those interrogated 8.8% (1.7% of the total sample) claimed to have made false confessions to the police. Over one-third (37.1%) reported being wrongfully convicted for the false confession offence. The main motives were to protect a peer and avoid police pressure. A stepwise discriminant function analysis showed that three variables (bullying victimization, negative attitudes towards school, and delinquency) discriminated significantly between the two groups after taking into account the relationship between the psychological scales. The findings provide strong evidence of the relationship between being a victim of bullying and giving false confessions. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland King's College, London: Research Portal Personality and Individual Differences 45 8 801 805 |
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The principal aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between false confession during custodial interrogation and history of victimization among young persons. The participants were 10,363 students in further education in Iceland (mean age 17.6-years, range 15-24). The participants completed questionnaires relating to mental health, self-esteem, victimization, delinquency, peer delinquency, drug use, attitudes towards school, and parental support, They also reported the extent of their police involvement and if they had ever falsely confessed to police. Almost one-fifth (19.8%) of the total sample stated that they had been interrogated by the police in relation to a suspected offence, of those interrogated 8.8% (1.7% of the total sample) claimed to have made false confessions to the police. Over one-third (37.1%) reported being wrongfully convicted for the false confession offence. The main motives were to protect a peer and avoid police pressure. A stepwise discriminant function analysis showed that three variables (bullying victimization, negative attitudes towards school, and delinquency) discriminated significantly between the two groups after taking into account the relationship between the psychological scales. The findings provide strong evidence of the relationship between being a victim of bullying and giving false confessions. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
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