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 …

This volume, a sequel to The Psychology of Interrogations, Confessions and Testimony
which is widely acclaimed by both scientists and practitioners, brings the field completely up …

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 …

At the heart of policing is a tension. On the one hand, police in liberal democratic societies
are custodians of the state's monopoly of legitimate force. On the other, they wield that …

This paper provides a systemic review of the available literature on people with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD) in the criminal justice system (CJS). The review considers two main …

What does it mean to be'under arrest'? Who can limit police powers, and why do
miscarriages of justice occur? The fourth edition of Criminal Justice provides a …

Through the first third of the twentieth century, American police used the third degree to
obtain confessions. Because they routinely threatened, beat, and tortured suspects, it is …

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 …

The investigation of the relationship between criminal offending and the presence of an
intellectual disability (ID) is problematic for two main reasons. First, because of problems …