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 …
A growing number of high-profile incidents have recently drawn attention to sex discrimination in the workplace. Allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and the …
In April 1989, a young woman was attacked while jogging in New York City's Central Park. The jogger entered the park near 84th Street shortly after 9: 00 pm, traveled north along the …
Findings from research on false memory have major implications for a number of fields central to human welfare, such as medicine and law. Although many important conclusions …
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 …
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 …
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An experiment demonstrated that false incriminating evidence can lead people to accept guilt for a crime they did not commit Subjects in a fast-or slow-paced reaction time task were …
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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 …
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