Why do juveniles falsely confess to crimes? What makes them more vulnerable than adults to this shocking, counterintuitive phenomenon? Through the lens of Brendan Dassey's interrogation and confession (as featured in Netflix's "Making a Murderer" documentary), developmental psychology professor and researcher Lindsay Malloy breaks down the science underlying false confessions and calls for change in the way kids are treated by a legal system designed for adults.
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Fantastic.
Please add Turkish subtitles
Wait, so who is ted?
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. It is not a person.
Pantheist Pinching Pennies if he not a person then how does he stand?
Pantheist Pinching Pennies how come he can talk, then?
Pantheist Pinching Pennies r/woooshh
TED was conceived in 1984 by architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman, who observed a convergence of the fields of technology, entertainment, and design (that is, “TED”)
Huh. I didn’t know any of this.
Spencer Teixeira Do you have ligma?
Why do adults do so as well? Because All Cops Are Bastards, and will pressure people into confession. This is a common practice and most courts don’t care while most Public Defenders don’t have the resources to care.
Shada public defenders are only in it for the money win or loss they still get paid !!!!!!!!!! They are basically lawers who scored low on the bar exam !!
Nanci E. Uh… public defenders don’t make much money. They hardly have any resources and are heavily overburdened with cases. Maybe you’re confusing them with private attorneys.
This isn’t a problem isolated to teens. People of all ages end up doing this.
Adam Barron very true smh
She said teens are more susceptible as the graph showed 42% of teens and 8% of adults
8% for adults is still too high, but the number for teen is just
damn outrageous.
Got news for you this is also the case in adult crimes !! Our justice system is based on guilty until proven innocent !! No bail on an innocent plea !
Nanci E. illiterate until proven drunk
Khalid Batafari Anime Podcast hey blame Google spell check. And my $35 phone !! Since your a spell checker and a TROLL do you have an APP I can use?
Yes, it does happen with adults but teenagers are particularly vulnerable because they’re still kids and their brains aren’t properly equipped to handle the same things adults do.
More accurately, guilty until proven guilty.
So police officers plays mind games with juveniles so that they can falsely convict them . This is a big crime.
Sadly, it’s not a crime. It’s entirely legal to psychologically bully a child into admitting guilt. The entire system is designed to convict you.
Notice how when you’re arrested they say, “Anything you say can and will be used AGAINST you.” If you say something to a cop that completely exonerated you, it is illegal for him to testify in your favor. It’s considered hearsay. They can only testify if it hurts your defense. The cops work for the prosecutor, not the people.
Bikiron – it’s been happening for a long time. Sadly.
Even then it may not end.
Its not a crime in the U.S. Government. It should be though. I respect ur morale thoughts.
Not just suspects, witnesses too.
i agree with everything Ms. Malloy said. Teenagers want to think they are totally grown up and that reliance on their parents is what “wusses” or babies do. I wonder if one that is the main reason they do not ask for their parent to be present.
It could also be they dont want to get the double trouble of getting scolded at home too, or want to not embarass them or themselves, like with a bad grade.
Synthia McBride – that, and maybe they don’t know (or understand) their rights? ♥️♥️♥️
Vikki, as a teacher in ‘training’ we are taught that we must make certain that our students know their rights if they are to be questioned by police. Which means…to me, that most teenagers are not taught them at all. We (I can only speak for Canada..) teach them their societal responsibilities but we do not, clearly, teach them their rights 🙁
This was an enlightening video. Some of the problems that she mentioned, we also have here in the UK. I thought US would be different though, because (I think) you have Article 5 – right to remain silent and (I think) Article 7 – the right to not be convicted solely on your confession. So, how does this happened in the American system? Here in UK, we actually have the opposite, Criminal Justice Act 1994 implies an assumption of guilt if you refuse to answer police questioning.
I didn’t know we (the UK) have a different take on the remaining silent part…
I would do a false confession if I was at a point where I just don’t care, and really just wants it to end.
Honestly people like both of you disgust me
A murderer gets away due to you wastes of human life
The first kid is understandably pressured for having an IQ of 70, but that shows your mental capacity
Lil Colgate Vert Im smart, but i cant handle negative pressure, i really cant. Plus, it would be a moment of despair, probably weeks, or months after it started. Im not saying that as soon as i am convicted, ill give up and falesly confess, Im saying that after a while, where I see I cant do anything, or all the evidence is against me, ill come to terms with the punishment and just confess to it. You are jumping to conclusions, and need to chill put. Chances are, ppl will call out the case and be outraged.
DJ Gaming I was mostly attacking the other guy with the previous replies. I just hate people that fall victim to things like this, because it lets real criminals get off scot free and police just accept it.
I did make a hasty assumption for calling you an idiot however, I definitely retract that
DJ Gaming I still find your behavior to be very unprincipled, but I understand if you legitimately cannot handle the pressure
Lil Colgate Vert I think everyone has a limit. I’d like to think that I would never confess a crime I didn’t comit, even if tortured or pressure phycologically but a lot of evidence suggests the contrary, just take a look at the Milgram experiment
So interesting
There’s a documentary on Netflix (yes, not the greatest source of information) called “The Confession Tapes”. It’s a good watch and an eye-opener into how people can be forced through psychological pressure into confessing to crimes they didn’t commit.
I have studied Psychology and I understand the issue with false confessions and how they’re extracted through the use of psychological conditioning over hours and hours of pressure put on the individual.
Thanks so much for speaking about this publicly.
Youtube isn’t exactly the pinnacle of education either
Youtube is a platform, the channel source dictates the quality of the education. This video was highly educational, Years ago I found lectures from Dr. Robert Sapolsky a Neuroscientist at Stanford university. I would call his lectures the pinnacle of education. Much of the research on Neuroscience she is talking about comes from people like Robert Sapolsky.
This has been my exact experience when I was a teen.
REGNARTS00 same here
What’s worse is once you confess to something you didn’t do, the next time something bad happens, they automatically assume you did it, and pressure you even more to confess to crap you didn’t do.
Fed sounds cooler!
Why there is no justice in criminal “justice”
It’s the criminal _injustice_ system
CURSE YOUR PROFILE PIC. I nearly swatted my screen.
The simplest answer is that the government has decided that IT is the victim of every “crime”, and has set up the legal system to favor its will. Consider the case of a rape: there is an injured victim who gets nothing out of seeking “justice”. The government uses the victim to usurp power, collect money, etc. This is a broken system. In a proper common law system, there is no crime without a victim, and the victim starts the wheels of justice in motion. The victim stands against the perpetrator, and the government mediates. In the case of determined guilt, the victim should receive appropriate compensation from the perpetrator. The government should have no part in it except the adjudicator of justice. According to the current system, the government can create all manor of victimless crimes, determine it is the victim of every crime, and enforce its will upon whomever it deems to have committed a crime.
So police officers care more about putting someone behind the bars than crushing someone’s life for a crime they didn’t even commit? Sounds like a perfect legal system………..
Some divorce lawyers make tacit advise to make false criminal charges against the other person. What is legal and what is just are different things.
That’s happen if the state attorney and sheriff have to get poular vote. They need convictions.
Lying to suspects should be illegal everywhere, especially to teens with intellectual disabilities!
I agree with your statement, except the the last phrase. ALL should be equal under the law. None should be protected “especially”.
cops lie. first thing everyone should know
Wheelsmcdeals ace How about cops die for you to survive…. that’s what everyone should know… Smh
Tenne
How about cops who shoot citizens… that’s what everyone should know… Smh
What about you watch videos of cops shooting people? If you don’t want to dig up old stuff, just wait, one more case will probably happen this week.
cicron 10 I actually do watch those videos, on the YT channel “Police Activity” and the only reason they have to shoot is because there life is being threatened or other civilians lives are being threatened… you need to look at yourself and change something. Police don’t just shoot for fun. They do it to save lives.