Kassin contends that there are five myths of confessions that are prevalent in the criminal justice system:

(1) Innocent people cannot be induced to confess through the use of legal and noncoercive interrogation tactics;

(2) police investigators are often convinced they can identify truth tellers from liars during interviews, and consequently feel they are able to determine who should be interrogated;

(3) relying on some combination of intuition and corroboration, many police officers and other criminal justice personnel believe they can distinguish between true and false confessions;

(4) people facing interrogation are protected by their constitutional rights to silence and to counsel; and

(5) if the confession was coerced and is erroneously admitted at trial, appellate courts can reasonably determine whether the error was harmless.

Question 1

Which of these do you believe is most problematic and why?

Question 2

what 3 strategies do you think could be realistically implemented to address concerns?