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Even if you have the mental strength to resist interrogation and not make a false confession, it might be in your interest to confess to speed things up. If yo
by laurieg 5y ago
Even if you have the mental strength to resist interrogation and not make a false confession, it might be in your interest to confess to speed things up.
If you no-showed at work for 3 weeks, would you lose your job? But if you confess, you could be out today.
Here is an account of being arrested and detained in Japan[1]. It's worth a read, especially given the ending.
[1] https://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/truth-lies-and-videotape-at-the-kawasaki-kmart.html https://nymag.com/vindicated/2016/11/truth-lies-and-videotap...
- Clewza313 5y agoSo she was falsely accused, detained for a week, and released with apparently no consequences? That's not great, but it's hardly a uniquely Japanese horror story either. For comparison, back in the Land of the Free, here's a kid in New York who was jailed for three years on Rikers Island for a similar false accusation of theft: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law
- Asooka 5y agoYes, but that case is egregious by American standards, while the woman's case is everyday occurrence in Japan.
- bzbarsky 5y ago_Is_ that case egregious by American standards? The 3 years might be (though I'm not convinced for some jurisdictions), but the overall shape of the case is, I think, depressingly common in the US...
- yccs27 5y agoI mean, the whole argument is based on two anecdotes, which show that both systems can be excessively unfair. We'd need at least some numbers to talk about "everyday occurrences" or not.