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information entity > data > false confession

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false confession  

Definition

  • Admission by an innocent person of having committed a crime.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Gudjonsson, G. H. (2018). The psychology of false confessions: Forty years of science and practice. Wiley.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Gudjonsson, G. H. (2021). The science-based pathways to understanding false confessions and wrongful convictions. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633936

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Kassin, S. M., Drizin, S. A., Grisso, T., Gudjonsson, G. H., Leo, R. A., & Redlich, A. D. (2010). Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations. Law and Human Behavior, 34(1), 3–38. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10979-009-9188-6

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Kassin, S. M., & Gudjonsson, G. H. (2004). The psychology of confessions: A review of the literature and issues. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 5(2), 33–67. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1529-1006.2004.00016.x

    [Study type: literature review / Access: free]
  • • Lassiter, G. D., & Meissner, C. A. (Eds.). (2010). Police interrogations and false confessions: Current research, practice, and policy recommendations. American Psychological Association.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Meissner, C. A., Redlich, A. D., Michael, S. W., Evans, J. R., Camilletti, C. R., Bhatt, S., & Brandon, S. (2014). Accusatorial and information-gathering interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions: A meta-analytic review. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 10(4), 459–486. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-014-9207-6

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: closed]
  • • Otgaar, H., Schell‐Leugers, J. M., Howe, M. L., Vilar, A. D. L. F., Houben, S. T. L., & Merckelbach, H. (2021). The link between suggestibility, compliance, and false confessions: A review using experimental and field studies. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(2), 445–455. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3788

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Stewart, J. M., Woody, W. D., & Pulos, S. (2018). The prevalence of false confessions in experimental laboratory simulations: A meta‐analysis. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 36(1), 12–31. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2327

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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