YOU might think it could never happen to you. Believe me, it could. Almost anyone, given the right circumstances, can be persuaded to confess to a crime they did not commit.
The “right circumstances” can be anything from long periods of questioning or days of confinement to severe psychological pressure and intimidation. Intelligence officers in search of information can easily make detention and questioning so intolerable that their subjects will say anything for a way out.
Despite this, many American and some British police and military interrogators actively play on people’s vulnerabilities when they are trying to force a confession,…
