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- Published online April 4, 2018.
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- Viviana Alvarez-Toro, MD and
- Cesar A. Lopez-Morales, JD
- Dr. Alvarez-Toro is a Resident in the University of Maryland/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program, Baltimore, MD. Mr. Lopez-Morales is a Trial Attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC. A version of this paper was presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, October 22–25, 2015, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- Address correspondence to: Viviana Alvarez-Toro, MD, 701 W. Pratt Street, Room 476 Baltimore, Maryland 21201. Email: vmalvareztoro{at}gmail.com.
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- Abstract
- A Historical Background of False Confessions
- Interrogation-Induced Confessions and At-Risk Populations
- The Coercive Nature of the Interrogation Process
- Studies on False Confessions
- The Effects of False Confessions and the Criminal Justice System
- Recommendations for Addressing the False Confession Problem
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
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