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The psychology of false confessions : forty years of science and practice /

Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of the development of the science behind the psychology of false confessions Four decades ago, little was known or understood about false confessions and the reasons behind them. So much has changed since then due in part to the diligent work done by Gi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gudjonsson, Gisli H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
Colección:Wiley series in the psychology of crime, policing and law
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Author; Series Preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Icelandic Names; The Psychology of False Confessions; Introduction; A Brief Review of my Cases on Disputed Confessions (1980-2016); The Structure and Content of the Book; The Gudmundur and Geirfinnur Cases; Part I The Emerging Science and Practice; Chapter 1 An Era of Enquiry and Development; My Early Research on Lie Detection; The Sunday Times Experiment; British Psychological Society Committees on Lie Detection; Onward and Upward; Conclusions.
  • Chapter 2 The Impact of Real-Life Cases on Legal Changes, Police Practice, and ScienceThe Confait Case; The Guildford Four; The Birmingham Six; The Tottenham Three (Engin Raghip); The Case of Judith Ward; The Cardiff Three (Stephen Miller); The PEACE Model of Interviewing; Summary and Conclusions; Chapter 3 Interrogative Suggestibility; The Experimental Approach; The Individual Differences Approach; The Gudjonsson and Clark Model; Conclusions; Chapter 4 The Psychology of False Confessions: The Theories; Definitions of False Confession; An Early Conceptual Framework.
  • The Kassin and Wrightsman Threefold ClassificationCritique of the Kassin-Wrightsman Classification; Key Components That Elicit and Facilitate the Internalization Process; Memory Distrust Syndrome; The Five Sequential Steps; Immediate Versus Delayed Suggestibility; A Heuristic Model of Internalized False Confessions; Conclusions; Chapter 5 The Development of the Science: The Evidence Base; Brief Summary of Theoretical Developments; Landmark Early Studies on Police Interrogation; False Confessions in Miscarriages of Justice Research.
  • Rate of Interrogation, Base Rate of Guilt, and False Confessions8Type of Offence Falsely Confessed To; Reasons Given for the False Confession; 'I'd Know a False Confession if I Saw One'; Risk Factors; Situational Risk Factors; Personal Risk Factors; The Psychological Effects of Interrogation; Conclusions; Part II The Gudmundur and Geirfinnur Cases; Chapter 6 Icelandic Society in the 1970s; Brief History and Landscape; The Constitution and Government; The Police; The Courts; Prisons; Drug Abuse Problems and Smuggling; Media Frenzy; Homicide in Iceland; Conclusions.
  • Chapter 7 The Keflavík Investigation and the First ConfessionThe Investigation and Principal Characters; The Disappearance of Geirfinnur Einarsson; The Keflavík Investigation Into Geirfinnur's Disappearance; The First Confession to Geirfinnur's Disappearance; Conclusions; Chapter 8 The Confessions in the Gudmundur Einarsson Case; The Post and Telecommunication Fraud; The Disappearance of Gudmundur Einarsson; The Gudmundur Einarsson Investigation; The Confessions to Gudmundur Einarsson's Murder; Thematic Analysis of the Successive Accounts.