Interrogations, Confessions, and Entrapment (Perspectives in Law & Psychology)
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Book Description
The purpose of this edited volume is to help expose these largely unrecognized forms of psychological manipulation that undermine the integrity of American jurisprudence. The chapters are authored by psychologists, criminologists, and legal scholars who have contributed significantly to our understanding of the pressures that insidiously operate when the goal of law enforcement is to elicit self-incriminating behavior from suspected criminals. Contrary to what the police and the general public generally believe, it is now clear that standard techniques of interrogation can cause innocent people to falsely confess. Many of the wrongful convictions that have recently been brought to light, primarily as a result of DNA testing, establish conclusively that unreliable confession evidence is a serious problem that must be solved if further miscarriages of justice are to be prevented.
About the Author
G. Daniel Lassiter is Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1984 and thereafter began a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University. He was a Visiting Faculty at the University of Florida before arriving at Ohio University in 1987.
Interrogations, Confessions, and Entrapment (Perspectives in Law & Psychology),G. Daniel Lassiter,Springer,0306484706,Clinical Psychology,Confession (Law),Criminology,Forensic Science,General,Police questioning,Psychological aspects,Social Science,Sociology,Psychology & Psychiatry / Applied Psychology
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