INTERROGATION AND CONFESSIONS

Interrogation and Confessions Using SARA Model

Interrogation and Confessions Using SARA Model

Introduction

Interrogation is perhaps the most controversial area of policing practice. This paper discusses the issues of interrogation and confessions using the SARA Problem Solving model. This report addresses the complex and topical problems, which surrounds the interrogation of the accused of a crime, and questions relating to the confession of the accused. In the criminal justice system, interrogation and confession more often appears as a motive or aggravating factor in the commission of a crime.

Scanning

Interrogation by police is an issue of contention, regardless of specific methods deployed by the police. The condition of an officer being alone with a suspect, while trying to gather evidence or a confession, is a subject of intense scrutiny and questioning. Issues of coercion, respect of interviewee's rights, due process, and legitimacy of information gained center to the problems associated with the interrogation and confession of accused.

Existing methods to elicit the confession of a person raises questions on the viability of approach police adopt to get the results in relation to the framework of the criminal justice system. Main problem occurred when reported cases of lynching started increasing in U.S. Lynching is the extrajudicial killing of an individual under detention by state law protectors or by a mob. An arrest represents a seizure by law enforcement of a person; as such, probable cause must first exist to justify the arrest. This is a legitimate distinction, but one made in the field by police and law enforcement officers every day. This highlights the Miranda rule principle under which suspect has right to remain silent, prior to coordinating with his lawyer.

The issue began in early 1960s, when Supreme Court became frustrated with police abuses during interrogations. In the case of Ernesto Miranda v. Arizona, in ...