Police interrogation from a social psychology perspective

Policing and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 379-399

  Hartwig, Maria ^a   Anders Granhag, Pär ^b   Vrij, Aldert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Investigative interviewing; Police interrogations

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149086471     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439460500309956     Document Type: Article

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