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Police Interrogation and American Justice / Richard A. Leo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674026483
  • 9780674033702
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.25/40973 22
LOC classification:
  • HV8073.3 .L46 2008eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Police Interrogation and the American Adversary System -- CHAPTER 2. The Third Degree -- CHAPTER 3. Professionalizing Police Interrogation -- CHAPTER 4. The Structure and Psychology of American Police Interrogation -- CHAPTER 5. Constructing Culpability -- CHAPTER 6. False Confessions -- CHAPTER 7. Miscarriages of Justice -- CHAPTER 8. Policy Directions -- Conclusion -- NOTES REFERENCES INDEX -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Read him his rights. We all recognize this line from cop dramas. But what happens afterward? In this book, Leo sheds light on a little-known corner of our criminal justice system--the police interrogation. An important study of the criminal justice system, this book provides interesting answers and raises some unsettling questions.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674033702

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Police Interrogation and the American Adversary System -- CHAPTER 2. The Third Degree -- CHAPTER 3. Professionalizing Police Interrogation -- CHAPTER 4. The Structure and Psychology of American Police Interrogation -- CHAPTER 5. Constructing Culpability -- CHAPTER 6. False Confessions -- CHAPTER 7. Miscarriages of Justice -- CHAPTER 8. Policy Directions -- Conclusion -- NOTES REFERENCES INDEX -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Read him his rights. We all recognize this line from cop dramas. But what happens afterward? In this book, Leo sheds light on a little-known corner of our criminal justice system--the police interrogation. An important study of the criminal justice system, this book provides interesting answers and raises some unsettling questions.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)