Interrogations, confessions, and entrapment
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Interrogations, confessions, and entrapment
（Perspectives in law & psychology, v. 20）
Springer, c2006
- : softcover
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First soft cover printing c2006
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
- 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 legal system
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- E.F. Loftus. 1: Exposing Coercive Influences in the Criminal Justice System: An Agenda for Legal Psychology in the 21st Century
- G.D. Lassiter, J.J. Ratcliff. 2: Questions
- G.R. Klare. 3: The Third Degree and the Origins of Psychological Interrogation in America
- R.A. Leo. 4: 'You're Guilty, So Just Confess!' Cognitive and Behavioral Confirmation Biases in the Interrogation Room
- C.A. Meissner, S.M. Kassin. 5: The Police Interrogation of Children and Adolescents
- A.D. Redlich, M. Silverman, J. Chen, H. Steiner. 6: Tales From the Juvenile Confession Front: A Guide to How Standard Police Interrogation Tactics Can Produce Coerced and False Confessions From Juvenile Suspects
- S.A. Drizin, B.A. Colgan. 7: Mental Retardation, Competency to Waive Miranda Rights, and False Confessions
- S.M. Fulero, C. Everington. 8: Attempts to Improve the Police Interviewing of Suspects
- R. Bull, B. Milne. 9: Bias and Accuracy in the Evaluation of Confession Evidence
- G.D. Lassiter, A.L. Geers. 10: The Psychology of Entrapment
- V.A. Edkins, L.S. Wrightsman. 11: Expert Psychological Testimony on the Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions
- S.M. Fulero. 12: So What's a Concerned Psychologist to Do? Translating the Research on Interrogations, Confessions and Entrapment into Policy
- E.C. Wiggins, S. Wheatman.
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