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 …
J Shaw, S Porter - Psychological science, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …
M Coulthard, A Johnson - 2010 - api.taylorfrancis.com
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 …
SM Kassin - American psychologist, 2005 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …
SE Clark - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Psychological science has come to play an increasingly important role in the legal system by informing the court through expert testimony and by shaping public policy. In recent years …
A Schneider - The Sage handbook of social anthropology, 2012 - torrossa.com
The present chapter intends to delineate and assess the future potentials of the main fields of the anthropology of art. I will not engage here in the definitional issues surrounding the …