Inside criminal minds: Offenders' strategies when lying

Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-281

  Strömwall, Leif A ^a   Willén, Rebecca M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deception; Impression management; Information management; Offenders; Police interviews and interrogations; Strategies when lying

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053567609     PISSN: 15444759     EISSN: 15444767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jip.148     Document Type: Article

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