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 …

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

With a few notable exceptions, the research on interrogation, suspect interviewing, and
intelligence collection has been predominantly focused on either broad categories of their …

This research concerns murderers' and sexual offenders' experiences of Swedish police
interviews and their attitudes towards allegations of these serious crimes. The explorative …

Using a less deceptive variant of the false evidence ploy, interrogators often use the bluff
tactic, whereby they pretend to have evidence to be tested without further claiming that it …

Psychology and Law shows how psychological research and theory can be used in a legal
context. Written with advanced undergraduate students in mind, it focuses upon the pre-trial …

Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social
psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from the very beginning of the …

Objectives: To investigate differences and similarities between violent offenders and two
types of sex offenders, rapists and child molesters, in terms of their personality, the nature of …

A theoretical distinction between instrumental and expressive aggression was used in
analyzing offender characteristics and their associations with crime scene actions in Finnish …