Wrongful conviction databases have shed light on the fact that innocent people can be
induced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, core …

Recently, in a number of high-profile cases, defendants who were prosecuted, convicted,
and sentenced on the basis of false confessions have been exonerated through DNA …

Objectives We completed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available empirical
literature assessing the influence of accusatorial and information-gathering methods of …

Memory researchers long have speculated that certain tactics may lead people to recall
crimes that never occurred, and thus could potentially lead to false confessions. This is the …

Interrogation and confession-taking is of interest to a wide audience. To political scientists
and sociologists, police interrogation offers a paradigm case of the constitutional exercise …

The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics,
approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It …

By questionnaire, 631 police investigators reported on their interrogation beliefs and
practices—the first such survey ever conducted. Overall, participants estimated that they …

Abstract The Central Park jogger case and other recent exonerations highlight the problem
of wrongful convictions, 15% to 25% of which have contained confessions in evidence …

Psychological science has come to play an increasingly important role in the legal system by
informing the court through expert testimony and by sha** public policy. In recent years …

Proponents of “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the United States have claimed that
such methods are necessary for obtaining information from uncooperative terrorism …