James L. Trainum

How the Police Generate False Confessions

An Inside Look at the Interrogation Room

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How Police Generate False Confessions explores the research on and controversy around false confessions and helps the reader understand what really happens in the interrogation room.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9781442244641
• ISBN-10: 144224464X
• Artikelnr.: 42812789

Autorenporträt

By James L. Trainum

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1: History 2: Do We Even Have a Problem? 3: Types of
Confessions and Statements 4: Taking the First Steps 5: Good Police Work or
Coercion? 6: Contamination 7: Statement Evaluation 8: Witnesses 9:
Cooperators and Informants 10: Plea Bargaining 11: Is There a Better Way?
12: Reform 13: What Lays in Store for the Future