Police Interrogations and False Confessions: Current Research, Practice, and Policy Recommendations

✍ Scribed by Christian August Meissner (editor), G. Daniel Lassiter (editor)

• Publisher: American Psychological Association
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 269
• Series: Decade of Behavior
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together a group of renowned scholars and practitioners in the fields of social psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, criminology, clinical-forensic psychology, and law to examine: interrogation tactics and the problem of false confessions; review of Supreme Court decisions regarding Miranda warnings and custodial interrogations; and new research on juvenile confessions and deception in interrogative interviews.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: Police Interrogations and False Confessions—An Overview
Chapter 1
The Three Errors: Pathways to False Confession and Wrongful Conviction
Chapter 2
The Psychology of False Confessions: A Review of the Current Evidence
Chapter 3
False Confessions, False Guilty Pleas: Similarities and Differences
Chapter 4
Custodial Interrogation of Juveniles: Results of a National Survey of Police
Chapter 5
Four Studies of What Really Happens in Police Interviews
Chapter 6
Lie Detection: Pitfalls and Opportunities
Chapter 7
The Importance of a Laboratory Science for Improving the Diagnostic Value of Confession Evidence
Chapter 8
The Wisdom of Custodial Recording
Chapter 9
Videotaping Custodial Interrogations: Toward a Scientifically Based Policy
Chapter 10
The Supreme Court on Miranda Rights and Interrogations: The Past, the Present, and the Future
Chapter 11
Oral Miranda Warnings: A Checklist and a Model Presentation
Chapter 12 Evaluations of Competency to Waive Miranda Rights and Coerced or False Confessions: Common Pitfalls in Expert Testimony
Chapter 13
Tales From the Front: Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions Revisited
Conclusion: What Have We Learned? Implications for Practice, Policy, and Future Research
Afterword: Deconstructing Confessions—The State of the Literature
Index
About the Editors