Abstract
People with FASD are easily manipulated by others, and such social vulnerability is a major reason why they are so likely to get into serious legal and other forms of difficulty. Police interrogations are also manipulative, in that a detective is attempting to use various ploys—including deceptive statements–to persuade someone to do something he is initially reluctant to do, namely admit to having committed a criminal act. In this paper, the authors use an audiotape of an actual interrogation of a young man with FASD who initially strongly denied guilt, to better understand the way interrogative manipulations (including lies) were used to break his will and get him to confess to a crime which he may or may not have committed.
Keywords
- Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Executive Functioning
- Neurodevelopmental Disorder
- Social Vulnerability
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
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Greenspan, S., Driscoll, J.H. (2016). Why People with FASD Fall for Manipulative Ploys: Ethical Limits of Interrogators’ Use of Lies. In: Nelson, M., Trussler, M. (eds) Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults: Ethical and Legal Perspectives. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 63. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20866-4_2
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