False Confessions Case Study

Brilliant Essays
Baldwin, J. (1993) ‘Police Interview Techniques: Establishing Truth or Proof?’ British Journal of Criminology 33(3), 325-352
Blair, J. P. (2005) ‘A test of the unusual false confession perspective using cases of proven false confessions’. Criminal Law Bulletin 41, 127-144
Davies, S. L. (2005) ‘Reality of False Confessions-Lessons of the Central Park Jogger Case’, The. NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change 30, 209
Findley, K. A., & Scott, M. S. (2006). The multiple dimensions of tunnel vision in criminal cases. Wisconsin Law Review, 2
Garrett, B. L. (2008) ‘Judging innocence’. Columbia Law Review, 55-14
Gohara, M. (2006) ‘A lie for a lie: False confessions and the case for reconsidering the legality of deceptive interrogation techniques’.

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