2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    May 02, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

POSC 400 - Seminar in Criminal Interrogation and Confessions


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

A study of criminal interrogations and confessions, including such aspects as warning the subject, the Fourth Amendment Right of Privacy, the attitude of the interrogator, the classification of suspects for interrogation, tactics at interrogations, the interrogation of witnesses who may later become suspects, psychological tools to be used in extracting a confession from an unwilling suspect, procedures for reading suspects their rights and for informing them of those rights, the laws governing the admissibility of confessions in court, the use of trickery and deceit, and the latest laws- both federal and state-regarding, confessions and interrogations.
Prerequisite: POSC 101   or CRJC 101 and CRJC 300 


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