Abstract
Sixty-five juvenile offenders in residential care completed the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS1). Their scores were compared with those of 60 adult offenders. The two groups were matched for IQ and memory on the GSS. As predicted, the juveniles gave in significantly more to interrogative pressure (shift), whereas they were no more yielding to leading questions than the adult offenders. The results obtained are similar to those found in previous studies of interrogative suggestibility in both delinquent boys and adolescent boys. The study provides further confirmation that adolescents are especially vulnerable to interrogative pressure as measured by the tendency to change their previous answers following negative feedback.
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