A critical appraisal of modern police interrogations

Investigative Interviewing: Rights, Research and Regulation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 207-228

  Kassin, Saul M ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843926337     Document Type: Chapter

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