...This chapter examines the role of parents in the interviewing of juveniles by the police, the issues arising from such interrogation, and the implications of such issues for prevention of juvenile delinquency. It presents the case of a fifteen-year-old boy and the various questions it raises...

... testifying), including the circumstances of these confessions during interrogation and issues of false confessions through coercion and pressure. The main thrust of this chapter, however, is on secondary confessions (i.e., jailhouse informants), specifically the issue of false secondary confessions...

...This introductory chapter briefly describes the transformation of police interrogation techniques for juveniles. In the beginning of the twentieth century the law characterized children as irresponsible and incompetent, rejected claims for procedural protections, and created a civil, rehabilitative...

...This concluding chapter presents recommendations to reform the way police question suspects. Some focus on general interrogation practice—for example, mandatory recording of all interviews, prompt determination of probable cause, time limits on interrogation, and more use of investigative interview...

... and goes on to discuss the Bush administration's response to 9/11 as part of its heightened immigration enforcement. It then considers the administration's policies on asylums and refugees, along with the different means that it employed to target individuals and groups, such as coercive interrogation...

...This chapter opens with a review of the false confession and mistaken conviction of Matt Livers, which powerfully depicts many of the ways the totality of the circumstances shapes interrogation and suspects’ decisions to confess. The authors present interviews and explore ways that interviews...

...This chapter dives into the myriad deceptive tactics used by police interrogators. The authors open with the false confessions of the Tucson Four, who faced extensive deception. The authors then turn to a philosophical discussion of deception, followed by examination of the ways that lies by police...

... of psychological interrogation, which compounds the already-intense difficulties of identifying false confessions and stopping the process by which these confessions lead to mistaken convictions. The authors present categories of false confessions and then explore three general causes of false confession...

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...This chapter examines the jurisprudence of interrogations related to the extraordinary legislations in India by focusing on two major laws: the Terrorism and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA). It also considers a British Report on Torture (1855...

... police questioning and interrogation of juveniles shows that the notion of developmental maturity is still a foreign concept for some judges and law enforcement officers. The results also indicate that some system stakeholders recognize that youths' fear of authority and incarceration is useful leverage...

... on inputs such as language, dress, gesture, or not “belonging” within a street scene. Conditioned by an officer's inherent need for order (e.g., via regularity, predictability, and safety), these “symbolic assailants” come to be cast as differentially likely for police interrogation. Operational law...

... the same interrogation tactics they use for adults, including trickery, deception, and lying to elicit confessions or to produce incriminating evidence against the defendants. This book offers the first report of what actually happens when police question juveniles. Drawing on remarkable data, the book...

...What drives suspects to confess during police interrogation? In particular, why do some people falsely confess to serious crimes, despite both the likelihood of severe negative consequences and their actual innocence? Too often, observers endorse the mistaken belief that only people with severe...

... of the Department of Justice to shield itself from accountability for coercive interrogation. It also explores how the White House negotiated the conflict between sound legal advice and its pursuit of impunity and concludes with an analysis of the government's invocation of executive privilege and the campaign...

...This book explores the relationship among law, violence, and state power in liberal democracies by focusing on the legal and political discourses on torture in India and the United States. More specifically, it examines the jurisprudence of interrogations in India and the United States and how...

...This chapter examines the U.S. legal discourse on torture in the period after 9/11 to determine whether policies on interrogation and torture constitute a “state of exception” or represent a continuity in state policies. In particular, it considers whether the state-of-exception argument adequately...

...This book has explored the status of torture in liberal democracies, with particular emphasis on the jurisprudence of interrogations in India and the United States. It has argued that discussions of torture in liberal democracies are characterized by a politics of denial whereby the liberal state...

...Evidence of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and harsh interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay beg the question: has the “war on terror” forced liberal democracies to rethink their policies and laws against torture? This book focuses on the legal and political discourses on torture in India...

...This chapter reviews the three constitutional strategies used by the U.S. Supreme Court to regulate police interrogation. It argues that these strategies fail because the Court has no way to determine what actually happens during police questioning. The Miranda Court has...