- Represents the latest advances of the role of psychological factors in inducing potentially unreliable self-incriminating behavior
- Chapters are authored by a diverse group psychologists, criminologists, and legal scholars who have contributed significantly to the collective understanding of the pressures that insidiously operate when the goal of law enforcement is to elicit self-incriminating behavior from suspected criminals
- Reviews and analyzes the extant literature in this area as well as discussing how this knowledge can be used to help bring about needed changes in the...
- Represents the latest advances of the role of psychological factors in inducing potentially unreliable self-incriminating behavior
- Represents the latest advances of the role of psychological factors in inducing potentially unreliable self-incriminating behavior
- Chapters are authored by a diverse group psychologists, criminologists, and legal scholars who have contributed significantly to the collective understanding of the pressures that insidiously operate when the goal of law enforcement is to elicit self-incriminating behavior from suspected criminals
- Reviews and analyzes the extant literature in this area as well as discussing how this knowledge can be used to help bring about needed changes in the...
- Represents the latest advances of the role of psychological factors in inducing potentially unreliable self-incriminating behavior
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...
Although it is generally believed that wrongful convictions based on false confessions are relatively rare - the 1989 Central Park jogger 'wilding' ca...
