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 …

Rapport often appears in training and discussions regarding investigative interviewing, yet
very little empirical research has examined rapport systematically in law enforcement or …

Pre-interview planning is vital in interviews with suspects. Via a questionnaire administered
to 596 police investigators in Singapore, the current study examined potential associations …

2 Introduction many times and beaten. Ronald Jones, who was familiar to the police
because he was a suspect in a sexual assault case that was never brought to a trial, was …

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

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology uses popular myths as a vehicle for helping students
and laypersons to distinguish science from pseudoscience. Uses common myths as a …

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 …

False confessions present a puzzle: How could innocent people convincingly confess to
crimes they knew nothing about? For decades, commentators doubted that a crime suspect …

This chapter describes the Strategic Use of Evidence (SUE) technique–an interview method
aimed at eliciting cues to deception, and thereby improving the chances of correct …

Graycar and Prenzler present a readily accessible guide to the issues of public and private
sector corruption, outlining the nature and dimensions of corruption problems in a variety of …