Voluntary false confession
Definition
A false confession given without any external pressure, often to protect someone else, to seek notoriety connected with a high-profile crime, or as a symptom of a mental health condition.
Related terms
- Compliant false confession
- A false confession given knowingly by an innocent suspect who yields to interrogation pressure to escape the immediate situation, to gain a...
- Contamination
- The introduction of foreign material into a scene, or the displacement of existing material within it, by any person or environmental factor...
- Internalised false confession
- A confession in which the suspect has come to believe they committed the act, often as a result of intense questioning that...
- Post-admission narrative
- The part of a confession that comes after the initial admission of guilt: the account of how, where, and why. Linguists study...
- Third-person distancing
- A narrative feature in which the confessor positions themselves linguistically as an observer rather than an agent, using third-person reference or passive...
Explained in
- False Confessions: Linguistic Mechanisms and DetectionA false confession given without any external pressure, often to protect someone else, to seek notoriety connected with a high-profile crime, or as a symptom o...