CJUS620- Journal Review # 2- Week 5 Truth, Deception, and the Suspect-assign.pdf

In this assignment, you will critically review 2 recent peer-reviewed articles in a minimum of 2 pages.

You may wish to spend some time researching critical review techniques for journal articles prior to

starting this assignment. The paper must follow current APA guidelines. The page count does not

include the title page, abstract, reference section, or any extra material. See the grading rubric for

additional guidance. You must follow the article focus prompts closely. Microsoft Word is the only

acceptable upload format.

For each review, you will select and read one article. At a minimum, you must pay particular attention to

the identification of the premise and supporting points of the article, a synthesis of the article and the

corresponding material in the textbook or a synthesis of the article with your personal experience with

Truth, deception, and the suspect

By: (Name)

Abstract

The role of criminal justice is to deliver justice to individuals who have perpetrated a

criminal act. The criminal justice system involves governmental agencies and institutions that

offer rehabilitation services to the offenders, deter crimes from recurring, and support the victims

The abilities of the investigatory teams in detecting crimes is dependent on chances

rather than accuracy. When investigating criminal acts, it is essential to design an accurate model

of detecting deception to assist the police officers and detectives in knowing the culpable

individuals without detaining innocent persons. The police's traditional practices in conducting

investigations emanated from earlier schools of thought on lying that guaranteed liars to exhibit

street-based fears of being arrested (Zimmerman, 2016). Thus, researchers were propelled to

come up with an accurate behavioral indicator of detecting deception. In the recent past,

psychologists have shifted their focus to developing proactive strategies that interviewers can use

to establish signs of deception from the interviewees. The new models of determining truth in the

criminal justice system has the potential of revolutionizing law enforcement.

keeping a piece of evidence until late in an interview, gives space for guilty suspects to lie. When

the investigator reveals the evidence affirming that the suspect was in the scene of the crime

through CCTV footage, among other mechanisms, the suspect will have to fumble by creating

another lie or surrender by telling the truth. In some instances, suspects may accept being within

the said premises when the crime occurred but deny his or her involvement in such activities. In

The strategies are aimed at ridding the suspects of the created fictions to protect

themselves from guilt. It is proved that liars have the potential of disclosing more evidence when

narrating their stories as they tend to create a convincing narrative to get them off the hook

(Zimmerman, 2016). If the interview grows complex, the avenues that the suspect can use to

deceive the authorities are blocked. The detectives have also increased the suspects' cognitive

abilities by demanding that they narrate the incidences from the last to the first; truth-tellers are

capable of recalling the events as they transpired without much struggle. Liars will struggle to

psychological theories of crime are the commonly used perspectives on how criminal activities

develop. Psychological theories have been essential in shaping how society perceives crime and

delinquency, thus, adopting policies to curb such cases. These theories are embedded in

individual factors such as poor socialization and adverse early childhood experience, which may

lead to criminal thinking patterns.

The theory on behavior suggests that behavior is acquired through learning as people

advance from one level to the other; this school of thought is also known as a social theory of

knowledge and emphasizes that individual actions by far are a product of one encounter in life. A

significant assertion of this school of thought is conditioning, which is a learning style

incorporating stimuli and reward mechanisms (Pointpark, 2018). Individual actions reinforced

to the conflicts within the self. This can result in criminal tendencies, and a person's delinquency

can be seen as an identity crisis emanating from the inner turmoil. Despite its contributions,

critiques have challenged the theory citing that its premises cannot be verified empirically.

Recommendation

The journals are elaborately articulated to convey some crucial information in the field

of criminal justice. The first article is comprehensive and applies various mechanisms to

establish the truth from criminal acts so that only the responsible persons are subjected to

punishment, and applicable correctional facilities. Quest for justice is a grievance within most

societies in this age, and the responsible teams must advance their investigatory models to