High-Risk Interrogation: Using the "mr. Big Technique" to Elicit Confessions

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-40

  Smith, Steven M ^a   Stinson, Veronica ^a   Patry, Marc W ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confessions; False confession; Mr. Big undercover operation; Police undercover operations

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CRIME; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; LEGAL ASPECT; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION;

CANADA; COERCION; CRIME; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 77949269515     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-009-9203-y     Document Type: Article

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