How the Police Generate False Confessions - An Inside Look At the Interrogation Room

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

James L. Trainum, a private consultant, retired from the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. and was the Violent Crimes Case Review Project Director- Detective from 2000-2010. He was the recipient of the Marymount University Forensic Psychology Program Award in Ethics in Law Enforcement in 2005, and recipient of the 2009 Innocence Network's Champion of Justice Award. Trainum has written several articles on interrogations and the creation of Innocence Commissions, committees designed to review alleged wrongful conviction cases. He has been interviewed on the topic of interrogation and false confessions by The New Yorker, The New York Times, and National Public Radio. Trainum has also been quoted in the American Psychological Associations white paper on the topic of false confessions and in numerous other articles and editorials. He speaks at many conferences and other events to talk about the topic of false confessions and interrogation techniques.

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.

Product details

• Authors: James L Trainum, James L. Trainum, Trainum James L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.07.2016
• EAN: 9781442244641
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-4464-1
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Criminal Procedure, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, United States of America, USA, Police & security services, Criminal investigation & detection, Criminal investigation and detection, Criminal procedure, Police and security services, false confessions;interrogations;policing