Recent DNA exonerations have shed light on the problem that people sometimes confess to
crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, laws concerning the admissibility of …

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 …

Abstract [This book] packages the discipline [of social psychology] in thirty-one crisp and
playful essays (" modules"). This is the ultimate brief text in social psychology—a quick …

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 …

College students and police investigators watched or listened to 10 prison inmates
confessing to crimes. Half the confessions were true accounts; half were false—concocted …

Eighty-seven experts on the psychology of confessions—many of whom were highly
published, many with courtroom experience—were surveyed online about their opinions on …

In the last two decades, the Supreme Court repeatedly has examined consensual
encounters between citizens and police that lead to searches. Law enforcement agencies …

Crime suspects in the USA are typically questioned in a two‐step process aimed, first, at
behavioural lie detection during a pre‐interrogation interview, followed by the elicitation of a …

Inspired by DNA exoneration cases and other wrongful convictions of innocent people who
had confessed to crimes they did not commit, and drawing from basic principles of social …

Objectives Footage from body-worn cameras (BWCs) is sometimes used to assess the
quality of police interventions. This study investigates whether there is a “body-worn camera …