Selling confession: Setting the stage with the "sympathetic detective with a time-limited offer"

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 441-457

  Davis, Deborah ^a   Leo, Richard A ^b   Follette, William C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

authority; beneficence; false confession; interrogation; sympathy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957273785     PISSN: 10439862     EISSN: 15525406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043986210377229     Document Type: Article

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