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How the police generate false confessions : an inside look at the interrogation room / James L. Trainum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Trainum, James L., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Confession (Law)--United States.
- Confession (Law).
- Police questioning--United States.
- Police questioning.
- Self-incrimination--United States.
- Self-incrimination.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (330 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2018.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 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 Safeguards and Reform; 13 What Lies in Store for the Future?; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-299) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-40307-4
- 1-4422-4465-8
- OCLC:
- 1100671337
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