Recent DNA exonerations have shed light on the problem that people sometimes confess to
crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, laws concerning the admissibility …

Inherent in false confessions is a person taking responsibility for an act he or she did not
commit. The risk of taking such responsibility may be elevated in juveniles. To study possible …

Objectives We completed a systematic review and meta-analysis of the available empirical
literature assessing the influence of accusatorial and information-gathering methods of …

A great deal of research in the past two decades has been devoted to interrogation and
interviewing techniques. This study contributes to the existing literature using an online survey to …

Mental health courts (MHCs) represent an important new development at the interface of the
criminal justice and mental health systems. MHCs are criminal courts for persons with …

Previous research indicates that many adults (nearly 40%) fail to report their own
documented child sexual abuse (CSA) when asked about their childhood experiences. These …

Prospective studies of adults' memories of documented child sexual abuse (CSA) reveal
that the majority of individuals remember their victimization. However, the accuracy of these …

OBJECTIVES: A variety of tools are being used as leverage to improve adherence to psychiatric
treatment in the community. This study is the first to obtain data on the frequency with …

With a few notable exceptions, the research on interrogation, suspect interviewing, and
intelligence collection has been predominantly focused on either broad categories of their …

Bargaining in the “shadow of the trial,” which hinges on the expectations of trial outcomes, is
the primary theory used by noncriminologists to explain variation in the plea discount given …