Psychology -- Central Park Jogger
Matthew Johnson's The Central Park Jogger Case - Police coercion and secrecy in interrogation (Johnson, 2003), posits the reasonable theory that police interrogation is "ripe for abusive treatment" and the equally reasonable position that custodial questioning should be entirely recorded and preserved. While Johnson was wise to focus on the Central Park Jogger case and place it in historical/cultural context, he focused so intently on race considerations that he made some logically weak assertions about the race factor and omitted or glossed over equally effective supporting points about legal principles and the impact of adolescence on false confessions. The results of Johnson's approach are a reasonable theory and a tenable position that could be supported by far stronger arguments.
Introduction
The problem of false confessions remains a significant problem in the American criminal justice system, particularly when the Defendant is a nonwhite adolescent. As the Central Park Jogger case illustrates, a terrible injustice can occur without safeguards to ensure the integrity of the interrogation process and the rights of the accused. Reason dictates that additional measures must be taken to significantly improve an interrogation process that is currently ripe for abuse. Matthew Johnson's article gives a reasonable yet flawed support for some of those measures.
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Johnson's theory is that police...
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