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Richard A. Leo, Ph.D., JD

Hamill Family Chair Professor of Law and Social Psychology
Verified email at usfca.edu
Cited by 12015

The problem of false confessions in the post-DNA world

SA Drizin, RA Leo - NCL rev., 2003 - HeinOnline
In April 1989, a young woman was attacked while jogging in New York City's Central Park.
The jogger entered the park near 84th Street shortly after 9: 00 pm, traveled north along the …

Inside the interrogation room

RA Leo - J. Crim. L. & Criminology, 1995 - HeinOnline
A traditional criminal code performs several functions. It announces the law's commands to
those whose conduct it seeks to influence. It also defines the rules to be used in deciding …

Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations

…, SA Drizin, T Grisso, GH Gudjonsson, RA Leo… - Law and human …, 2010 - Springer
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 …

The decision to confess falsely: Rational choice and irrational action

RJ Ofshe, RA Leo - Denv. UL Rev., 1996 - HeinOnline
… disputed interrogation that Richard J. Ofshe evaluated between 1987 and 1997 and from
additional interrogation transcripts and case materials that Richard A. Leo collected during the …

Consequences of false confessions: Deprivations of liberty and miscarriages of justice in the age of psychological interrogation

RA Leo, RJ Ofshe - J. Crim. l. & Criminology, 1997 - HeinOnline
… For example, Richard Allen Davis, who admitted to kidnapping and killing a child, was not
willing to admit that he also raped her.Nevertheless, if a defendant has been properly and …

[BOOK][B] Police interrogation and American justice

RA Leo - 2008 - degruyter.com
Interrogation and confession-taking is of interest to a wide audience. To political scientists
and sociologists, police interrogation offers a paradigm case of the constitutional exercise and …

[HTML][HTML] Police interviewing and interrogation: A self-report survey of police practices and beliefs

SM Kassin, RA Leo, CA Meissner, KD Richman… - Law and human …, 2007 - Springer
By questionnaire, 631 police investigators reported on their interrogation beliefs and
practices—the first such survey ever conducted. Overall, participants estimated that they were 77% …

The impact of Miranda revisited

RA Leo - J. Crim. L. & Criminology, 1995 - HeinOnline
In 1966, the US Supreme Court redefined the direction of modem confession law in Miranda
v. Arizona,'one of the most well-known and influential legal decisions of the twentieth century…

The social psychology of police interrogation: The theory and classification of true and false confessions

RJ Ofshe, RA Leo - Stud. L. Pol. & Soc'y, 1997 - HeinOnline
Through the first third of the twentieth century, American police used the third degree to obtain
confessions. Because they routinely threatened, beat, and tortured suspects, it is readily …

Miranda's revenge: Police interrogation as a confidence game

RA Leo - Law and Society Review, 1996 - JSTOR
By requiring that police issue fourfold warnings to silence and appointed counsel prior to any
custodial questioning, Miranda v. Arizona (1966) created universalistic criteria for the legal …