The psychology of false confessions : forty years of science and practice / Gisli H. Gudjonsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gudjonsson, Gisli H., author.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Series:

Wiley series in psychology of crime, policing, and law

Wiley series in the psychology of crime, policing and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police questioning--Psychological aspects.

Police questioning.

Confession (Law)--Psychological aspects.

Confession (Law).

Criminal psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Author; Series Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Icelandic Names; The Psychology of False Confessions; Introduction; A Brief Review of my Cases on Disputed Confessions (1980-2016); The Structure and Content of the Book; The Gudmundur and Geirfinnur Cases; Part I The Emerging Science and Practice; Chapter 1 An Era of Enquiry and Development; My Early Research on Lie Detection; The Sunday Times Experiment; British Psychological Society Committees on Lie Detection; Onward and Upward; Conclusions

Chapter 2 The Impact of Real-Life Cases on Legal Changes, Police Practice, and ScienceThe Confait Case; The Guildford Four; The Birmingham Six; The Tottenham Three (Engin Raghip); The Case of Judith Ward; The Cardiff Three (Stephen Miller); The PEACE Model of Interviewing; Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 3 Interrogative Suggestibility; The Experimental Approach; The Individual Differences Approach; The Gudjonsson and Clark Model; Conclusions; Chapter 4 The Psychology of False Confessions: The Theories; Definitions of False Confession; An Early Conceptual Framework

The Kassin and Wrightsman Threefold ClassificationCritique of the Kassin-Wrightsman Classification; Key Components That Elicit and Facilitate the Internalization Process; Memory Distrust Syndrome; The Five Sequential Steps; Immediate Versus Delayed Suggestibility; A Heuristic Model of Internalized False Confessions; Conclusions; Chapter 5 The Development of the Science: The Evidence Base; Brief Summary of Theoretical Developments; Landmark Early Studies on Police Interrogation; False Confessions in Miscarriages of Justice Research

Rate of Interrogation, Base Rate of Guilt, and False Confessions8Type of Offence Falsely Confessed To; Reasons Given for the False Confession; 'I'd Know a False Confession if I Saw One'; Risk Factors; Situational Risk Factors; Personal Risk Factors; The Psychological Effects of Interrogation; Conclusions; Part II The Gudmundur and Geirfinnur Cases; Chapter 6 Icelandic Society in the 1970s; Brief History and Landscape; The Constitution and Government; The Police; The Courts; Prisons; Drug Abuse Problems and Smuggling; Media Frenzy; Homicide in Iceland; Conclusions

Chapter 7 The Keflavík Investigation and the First ConfessionThe Investigation and Principal Characters; The Disappearance of Geirfinnur Einarsson; The Keflavík Investigation Into Geirfinnur's Disappearance; The First Confession to Geirfinnur's Disappearance; Conclusions; Chapter 8 The Confessions in the Gudmundur Einarsson Case; The Post and Telecommunication Fraud; The Disappearance of Gudmundur Einarsson; The Gudmundur Einarsson Investigation; The Confessions to Gudmundur Einarsson's Murder; Thematic Analysis of the Successive Accounts

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 11, 2018).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Gudjonsson, Gisli H. Psychology of false confessions.

ISBN:

9781119315698

1119315697

Publisher Number:

99977705746

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