Interrogations, Confessions, and Entrapment (Hardcover)

G. Daniel Lassiter

ISBN 10: 0306484706 / ISBN 13: 9780306484704

Editore: Springer Science+Business Media, New York, 2004

Hardcover. - Represents the latest advances of the role of psychological factors in inducing potentially unreliable self-incriminating behavior - Chapters are authored by a diverse group psychologists, criminologists, and legal scholars who have contributed significantly to the collective understanding of the pressures that insidiously operate when the goal of law enforcement is to elicit self-incriminating behavior from suspected criminals - Reviews and analyzes the extant literature in this area as well as discussing how this knowledge can be used to help bring about needed changes in the legal system Coerced confessions are a staple of TV crime dramas, and have also been the subject of the news stories. This book offers a synthesis of the scientific, legal, and ethical findings in this area, revealing the subtle yet powerful forces that often compromise the integrity of the criminal justice system. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780306484704

Riassunto:

- Represents the latest advances of the role of psychological factors in inducing potentially unreliable self-incriminating behavior - Chapters are authored by a diverse group psychologists, criminologists, and legal scholars who have contributed significantly to the collective understanding of the pressures that insidiously operate when the goal of law enforcement is to elicit self-incriminating behavior from suspected criminals - Reviews and analyzes the extant literature in this area as well as discussing how this knowledge can be used to help bring about needed changes in the legal system

Informazioni sull?autore:

G. Daniel Lassiter is Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1984 and thereafter began a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University. He was a Visiting Faculty at the University of Florida before arriving at Ohio University in 1987.

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Titolo: Interrogations, Confessions, and Entrapment ...
Casa editrice: Springer Science+Business Media, New York
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: new