Uses techniques from psychological science and legal theory to explore police interrogation in the United States Understanding Police Interrogation provides a single comprehensive source for understanding issues relating to police interrogation and confession. It sheds light on the range of factors that may influence the outcome of the interrogation of a suspect, which ones make it more likely that a person will confess, and which may also inadvertently lead to false confessions. There is a significant psychological component to police interrogations, as interrogators may try to build rapport with the suspect, or trick them into thinking there is evidence against them that does not exist. Also important is the extent to which the interrogator is convinced of the suspect’s guilt, a factor that has clear ramifications for today’s debates over treatment of black suspects and other people of color in the criminal justice system. The volume employs a totality of the circumstances approach, arguing that a number of integrated factors, such as the characteristics of the suspect, the characteristics of the interrogators, interrogation techniques and location, community perceptions of law enforcement, and expectations for jurors and judges, all contribute to the nature of interrogations and the outcomes and perceptions of the criminal justice system. The authors argue that by drawing on this approach we can better explain the likelihood of interrogation outcomes, including true and false confessions, and provide both scholars and practitioners with a greater understanding of best practices going forward.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III SCOTTY UNFOLDS TRUTHS AT the warning cry by the telepathic one, the gang began backing into those shadows and secret places from which they had emerged. Possibly, the prompt production of my Colt's-38 had somewhat to do with their disappearance; for your true gangster is never one to meet the iron face to face. In ancient days there was a party--Pythagoras was the name, I think, though I'll not be sure I've got his number right at that--who taught how men's souls, before they were men's souls, served as the souls of animals. Also, he said that, if you'd sharpen your eyes a bit, you could, in looking a man over, tell whether his soul had been a sheep's soul, or a lion's soul, or a horse's soul, and so on. Now I won't say there's anything in the theory, for it's altogether off my mental beat. What I will say is that if old Pythagoras was right, then the soul of every gangster used aforetime to be the soul of a rat. Ferocious, cowardly, cruel, hungry, unclean!--creatures born to haunt the sewers and infest the cellars of existence!--mere vermin of darkness, with a fear of light!--those gangsters whom I faced were rats, human rats. Being rats, that squeak of warning, coupled with my pistol, muzzle flush in their faces, became with them the instant signal for retreat. In a moment I was alone with Red Bob. Being alone, I yanked Red Bob onto his feet. Partly from the blow, and partly from the red liquor under his belt, he was in a fog. All of a blurr, he didn't know where he was or how he came to be there. This sort of thing is common with drunken men. Let a party, whose skin is soaked full of whiskey, receive a tap from a nightstick, or get jolted out by any other route, and a first insensibility runs off" into a drunken slumber....

James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a #1 New York Times bestselling teen detective novel about the mysterious Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another. On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone-maybe not even herself. As Tandy sets out to clear the family name, she begins to recall flashes of experiences long buried in her vulnerable psyche. These memories shed light on her family's dark secrets, and digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs proves to be a disturbing and dangerous game. Who knows what any of the Angels are truly capable of?

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