Police interrogation and American justice /
From the Publisher: "Read him his rights." We all recognize this line from cop dramas. But what happens afterward? In this book, Richard Leo sheds light on a little-known corner of our criminal justice system-the police interrogation. Incriminating statements are necessary to solve crimes,...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Police interrogation and the American adversary system
- 2: Third degree
- 3: Professionalizing police interrogation
- 4: Structure and psychology of American police interrogation
- 5: Constructing culpability
- 6: False confessions
- 7: Miscarriages of justice
- 8: Policy directions
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.
