True stories of false confessions
By: edited by Rob Warden and Steven A. Drizin.
Contributors: Warden, Rob.; Drizin, Steven A.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780810126039
Subjects: Confession (Law) -- United States; Confession (Law) -- Psychological aspects; Self-incrimination -- United States; Police questioning -- United States
Description: Collects thirty-eight articles describing how innocent men and women have been coerced into confessing to crimes they did not commit, revealing the questionable methods police officers use to get confessions from suspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Brainwashing; title: Michael Crowe; title: Beverly Monroe; title: Peter Reilly; title: Michael Altenburger; title: Gerald Martin Anderson; title: Desperation; title: Donnell Vaughn; title: Kevin Fox; title: Dennis Deonte Green; title: Inquisition; title: Abdallah Higazy; title: Christopher Ochoa; title: Lavale Burt; title: John A. Johnson; title: Jesse and Stephen Boorn; title: Child abuse; title: Romarr Gipson and Elijah Henderson; title: Antron Mccray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Kharey Wise; title: Melvin Dean Nimer; title: Mental fragility; title: Ozem Goldwire; title: Barry Laughman; title: Earl Washington Jr.; title: Inference; title: Robert Lee Miller Jr.; title: David Vasquez; title: Steven Paul Linscott; title: Thomas M. Bram; title: Fabrication; title: Keith Longtin; title: Madison Hobley; title: Opportunism; title: Alejandro Hernandez and Rolando Cruz; title: Eugene Earl Dykes; title: Pretense; title: John Mark Karr; title: Laverne Pavlinac; title: Police force; title: Corey Beale; title: Aaron Patterson; title: George Whitmore; title: Unrequited innocence; title: Joseph Dick, Derek Tice, Danial Williams, and Eric Wilson; title: Daniel Taylor; title: Lebrew Jones; title: Tommy Ward and Karl Fontenot; title: Richard Lapointe; title: John George Spirko Jr.; title: Policy recommendations.