| Description |
xviii, 250 pages ; cm. |
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Decade of behavior |
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Decade of behavior.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Police Interrogations and False Confessions -- an Overview / G. Daniel Lassiter [and others] -- The Three Errors: Pathways to False Confession and Wrongful Conviction / Richard A. Leo and Steven A. Drizin -- The Psychology of False Confessions: A Review of the Current Evidence / Gisli H. Gudjonsson -- False Confessions, False Guilty Pleas: Similarities and Differences / Allison D. Redlich -- Custodial Interrogation of Juveniles: Results of a National Survey of Police / N. Dickon Reppucci, Jessica Meyer, and Jessica Kostelnik -- Four Studies of What Really Happens in Police Interviews / Ray Bull and Stavroula Soukara -- Lie Detection: Pitfalls and Opportunities / Aldert Vrij [and others] -- The Importance of a Laboratory Science for Improving the Diagnostic Value of Confession Evidence / Christian A. Meissner, Melissa B. Russano, and Fadia M. Narchet -- The Wisdom of Custodial Recording / Thomas P. Sullivan -- Videotaping Custodial Interrogations: Toward a Scientifically Based Policy / G. Daniel Lassiter [and others] -- The Supreme Court on Miranda Rights and Interrogations: The Past, the Present, and the Future / Lawrence S. Wrightsman -- Oral Miranda Warnings: A Checklist and a Model Presentation / Gregory DeClue -- Evaluations of Competency to Waive Miranda Rights and Coerced or False Confessions: Common Pitfalls in Expert Testimony / I. Bruce Frumkin -- Tales From the Front: Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions Revisited / Solomon M. Fulero -- Conclusion: What Have We Learned? Implications for Practice, Policy, and Future Research / Christian A. Meissner and G. Daniel Lassiter -- Afterword: Deconstructing Confessions -- The State of the Literature / Saul M. Kassin. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"Although it is generally believed that wrongful convictions based on false confessions are relatively rare--the 1989 Central Park jogger "wilding" case being the most notorious example--recent exonerations of the innocent through DNA testing are increasing at a rate that few in the criminal justice system might have speculated. Because of the growing realization of the false confession phenomenon, psychologists, sociologists, and legal/law-enforcement scholars and practitioners have begun to examine the factors embedded in American criminal investigations and interrogations that may lead innocent people to implicate themselves in crimes they did not commit. Police interrogations and false confessions brings together a group of renowned scholars and practitioners in the fields of social psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, criminology, clinical-forensic psychology, and law to examine three salient dimensions of false confessions: interrogation tactics and the problem of false confessions; review of Supreme Court decisions regarding Miranda warnings and custodial interrogations; and new research on juvenile confessions and deception in interrogative interviews. Chapters include well-recognized programs of research on the topics of interrogative interviewing, false confessions, the detection of deception in forensic interviews, individual differences, and clinical-forensic evaluations. The book concludes with policy recommendations to attenuate the institutional and social psychological persistence (and pervasiveness) of the various inducements and impediments that have informed law enforcement's interrogation techniques and the types of false confessions they encourage"--Publicity materials. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved). |
| Form |
Also issued in print. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2010. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Police questioning -- United States.
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Confession (Law) -- United States.
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Police.
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Law Enforcement.
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Confession (Law) (OCoLC)fst00874662
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Police questioning. (OCoLC)fst01068663
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Lassiter, G. Daniel, 1954-
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Meissner, Christian A.
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American Psychological Association.
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| Other Form: |
Original (DLC) 2009032819 |
| ISBN |
9781433807435 print ed. |
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1433807432 print ed. |
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