Ph. D Kassin

Duped (eBook, ePUB)

Why Innocent People Confess - and Why We Believe Their Confessions

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time-in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psychologist Saul Kassin, the world's leading expert on false confessions, explains how interrogators trick innocent people into confessing, and then how the criminal justice system deludes us into believing these confessions.

Duped reveals how innocent men, women, and children, intensely stressed and befuddled by lawful weapons of psychological interrogation, are induced into confession, no matter how horrific the crime. By featuring riveting case studies, highly original research, work by the Innocence Project, and quotes from real-life exonerees, Kassin tells the story of how false confessions happen, and how they corrupt forensics, witnesses, and other evidence, force guilty pleas, and follow defendants for their entire lives- even after they are exonerated by DNA.

Starting in the 1980's, Dr. Kassin pioneered the scientific study of interrogations and confessions. Since then, he has been on the forefront of research and advocacy for those wrongfully convicted by police-induced false confessions. Examining famous cases like the Central Park jogger case and Amanda Knox case, as well as stories of ordinary innocent people trapped into confession, Dr. Kassin exposes just how widespread this problem is. Concluding with actionable solutions and proposals for legislative reform, Duped shows why the stigma of confession persists and how we can reform the criminal justice system to make it stop.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prometheus
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781633888098
• Artikelnr.: 63299292

Autorenporträt

Saul Kassin is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Massachusetts Professor Emeritus at Williams College. Kassin pioneered the scientific study of police interrogations and confessions, distinguishing three types of false confessions - a taxonomy that is still universally accepted today. He then developed the first experimental laboratory paradigms used to examine how innocent people are duped into confession and the impact these confessions have in duping judges, juries, and forensic examiners. His work is cited in courts all over the world. Kassin has received prestigious lifetime contribution awards from the American Psychological Association (APA), the Association for Psychological Science (APS), the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS), and the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL). Along with hundreds of articles, Kassin has author several college textbooks?including Social Psychology, now in its Eleventh Edition?and scholarly books such as Confessions in the Courtroom, The Psychology of Evidence and Trial Procedure, and The American Jury on Trial: Psychological Perspectives. He and his work have been featured in national and international print and television media including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Science magazine, and Ken Burns' 2012 film, The Central Park Five, among many others.

Inhaltsangabe

Saul Kassin is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Massachusetts Professor Emeritus at Williams College. For pioneering the scientific study of false confessions
Kassin has received prestigious lifetime contribution awards from the American Psychological Association (APA)
the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS)
and the European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL). Along with hundreds of articles
Kassin has authored several textbooks and scholarly books. His work has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show
in Science magazine
and in Ken Burns' 2012 film
The Central Park Five
and elsewhere.