The relationship between types of claimed false confession made and the reasons why suspects confess to the police according to the Gudjonsson Confession Questionnaire (GCQ)

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 259-269

  Sigurdsson, Jon Fridrik ^a  

^a Prison and Probation Administration   (Iceland)

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EID: 0009027057     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.1996.tb00324.x     Document Type: Article

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