Psychiatric treatment pressure can coerce innocent youths into false confessions

Evidence

In the end the Court of Appeal decided he had not committed the offense. Now you can see the dangers here. If the young person is pleading not guilty, it is very tempting to start talking to them about the offense and almost persuading them that they must be guilty, and that, if only they told you they were guilty, then you would be able to assist. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 494

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: the coercive logic of ‘treatment until you confess’ and how welfare-minded reform can reproduce the very pressure it claims to fix.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 494
• XREF: connects to: Psychiatric investigation produces plausible stories, not verifiable truth — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 497; Interviewing techniques can render children’s testimony unreliable. — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 1578; Coerced confessions force victims to accept fabrications as truth (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Interviewing techniques can render children’s testimony unreliable. #corroborates (0.60) — Lynley Hood, A City Possessed, 1578
• Psychiatric investigation produces plausible stories, not verifiable truth #expands (0.55) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 497