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The 16 pages that link to False confession, each with the reason it gives.

• CoercionRelated: Coercive questioning can produce admissions that are untrue.

• Wrongful convictionRelated: Coercion, exhaustion, or deceptive questioning can produce admissions to crimes not committed.

• TortureRelated: Coercive interrogation can produce admissions that are untrue and undermine investigations.

• False memoryRelated: Some false confessions involve accepting suggested or constructed accounts of events.

• Criminal profilingRelated: A misleading profile can intensify suspicion and contribute to coercive or misdirected questioning.

• Satanic panicRelated: Coercive or suggestive interrogation can produce confessions that reinforce unfounded allegations.

• Sacco and VanzettiRelated: The case included disputed confessions by other suspects and competing claims about their reliability.

• Aileen WuornosRelated: Questions about inconsistent statements and coercion matter when assessing the reliability of case evidence.

• Criminal psychologyRelated: Psychology investigates how pressure, vulnerability, and interrogation practices can produce unreliable admissions.

• Miscarriage of justiceRelated: Coercion, exhaustion, or deceptive questioning can make an innocent person appear guilty.

• Right to silenceRelated: Protection from coercive questioning can reduce pressure that contributes to false confessions.

• Andrei ChikatiloRelated: Chikatilo's case included a false confession by another suspect, contributing to a wrongful conviction.