Interrogation and Confession - A Study of Progress, Process and Practice

List of contents

Part 1. Historical Background. 1. The Evolution of Trial by Jury and the Place of Confession Evidence. 2. Coerced Confessions and Due Process Reactions. 3. The Historical Management of Preliminary Procedures. Part 2. Enter the Police. 4. Legitimating Confessions Through ‘Voluntariness’. 5. Accommodating Police Interrogations. 7. Genesis of the Judges’ Rules. Part 3. Images of the Police-Suspect Dynamic. 8. Pre-PACE Images: Detainees. 9. Pre-PACE Images: The Police. 10. PACE Images: Detainees. 11. PACE Images: The Police. 12. Images of the Police-Suspect Dynamic. 13. Continuity and Change.

Summary

First published in 1997, Interrogation and Confession has two important concerns: the first is with the structures and strategies that have evolved within the criminal justice system, the second is with kinds of police-suspect encounter that appear in official accounts of custodial interrogation.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan, Ian Bryan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138337121
• ISBN: 978-1-138-33712-1
• No. of pages: 338
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General