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This collection examines why people with intellectual disabilities may be especially vulnerable during police questioning and when evaluating confessions or waivers of rights. It summarizes case reports and studies involving suggestibility, acquiescence, decision-making, and Miranda comprehension, including findings that verbal ability predicted recall and vocabulary performance in one assessment study.
This research compilation examines how recording and presenting interrogations can affect judgments about confessions. Studies summarized in the article find that focusing the camera on the suspect can increase perceived voluntariness and guilty verdicts, while an equal view of interviewer and suspect is proposed as a way to reduce that bias and preserve context.
This overview describes the legal voluntariness doctrine used to assess whether a confession was obtained through coercion and may be excluded from evidence. It explains that courts consider the full circumstances, including interrogation conditions and police conduct as well as a suspect’s age, education, physical condition, and psychological state.
This resource describes investigative interviewing as an information-gathering approach and outlines the PEACE framework: planning and preparation, engaging and explaining, obtaining an account, closure, and evaluation. It also compiles research abstracts on memory-enhancing interviews, question style, interviewer bias, suspect interviews, and training in rapport-based methods.
This compilation outlines the Reid interrogation approach, including its accusatorial steps and maximization and minimization tactics, then surveys criticism and research concerning coercion, confession reliability, and false confessions. It includes summaries of studies comparing accusatorial or persuasion-based methods with information-gathering or dialogue-based approaches, as well as discussion of recording, training, and juvenile suspects.
This legislative research report compares the Reid interrogation method with criticisms and alternative approaches, including PEACE and the Kinesic Interview. It outlines Reid’s factual analysis, behavior-analysis interview, and accusatory interrogation stages, then describes PEACE as a less confrontational framework used in England, while presenting disputes about the evidence behind deception cues and false-confession risks.
This resource compiles explanations of false confessions, interrogation practices, and proposed safeguards, drawing on psychological research and legal commentary. It distinguishes voluntary, compliant, and internalized false confessions; describes pressure tactics such as minimization and false evidence; and includes recommendations in cited materials for recording custodial interrogations and barring fabricated evidence.
False allegations of child abuse are considered through a compilation of studies and clinical literature. The material reviews reported frequency estimates and exonerations, then presents a clinical typology covering allegations in custody disputes, psychological disturbance, conscious manipulation, and suggestive or other iatrogenic influences.
