On Monday, the Integrated Riot Investigation Team will recommend more charges against identified rioters. Since June, IRIT has sifted through a mound of digital evidence and has identified more rioters from the Stanley Cup riot in downtown Vancouver than expected. In the beginning of the investigation stage, 40 people were charged. Several hundred more charges are […]
Food Fight! Then Students Pepper Sprayed by Security Guard
Administrators are investigating a Norfolk school security guard’s use of pepper spray during a food fight. The incident happened during lunch last Tuesday at the cafeteria of Lafayette-Winona Middle School. Norfolk Public Schools spokesperson Elizabeth Mather said that the officer used pepper spray to break up the fight. A concerned parent wrote 10 On Your […]
Study Shows That False Confessions May Be More Common Than Previously Thought
Dr. Gisli Gudjonsson is a professor of forensic psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College in London. He has recently published a study that demonstrates that almost 20% of criminals that have been convicted were convicted through a false confession given during their interrogations by investigators. Research has found that in the United […]
Amanda Knox Trial is Over, but Meredith Kercher Murder Mystery Remains
Merideth’s killer was no expert at murder. It was amateur work. There were bloody fingerprints and footprints all over the apartment, and the killer even defecated in the toilet and forgot to flush. But that wasn’t the worst of it. Whoever murdered Meredith Kercher didn’t know how to use a knife. The first two wounds weren’t deep […]
The Burden of Lying
Psychological scientists are fascinated, as am I, by the tactics used by investigators in trying to determine if a suspect is lying. Detecting lies and liars is essential to effective policing and prosecution of criminals, but it is maddeningly difficult. Most of us can correctly spot barely more than half of all lies and truths […]
