Kids, Cops, and Confessions : Inside the Interrogation Room / Barry C. Feld.
2012
HV9104 .F443 2016
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Title
Kids, Cops, and Confessions : Inside the Interrogation Room / Barry C. Feld.
Author
Feld, Barry C., author.
ISBN
9780814770467
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814727775.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HV9104 .F443 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.2540830973
Summary
Juveniles possess less maturity, intelligence, and competence than adults, heightening their vulnerability in the justice system. For this reason, states try juveniles in separate courts and use different sentencing standards than for adults. Yet, when police bring kids in for questioning, they use the same interrogation tactics they use for adults, including trickery, deception, and lying to elicit confessions or to produce incriminating evidence against the defendants. In Kids, Cops, and Confessions, Barry Feld offers the first report of what actually happens when police question juveniles. Drawing on remarkable data, Feld analyzes interrogation tapes and transcripts, police reports, juvenile court filings and sentences, and probation and sentencing reports, describing in rich detail what actually happens in the interrogation room. Contrasting routine interrogation and false confessions enables police, lawyers, and judges to identify interrogations that require enhanced scrutiny, to adopt policies to protect citizens, and to assure reliability and integrity of the justice system. Feld has produced an invaluable look at how the justice system really works.
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Youth, Crime, and Justice ; ; 3
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
1. Interrogating Criminal Suspects
2. Questioning Juveniles
3. To Waive or Not to Waive
4. Police Interrogation
5. Juveniles Respond to Interrogation
6. Justice by Geography
7. True and False Confessions
8. Policy Reforms
Appendix 1. Data and Methodology
Appendix 2. Where the Girls Are
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction
1. Interrogating Criminal Suspects
2. Questioning Juveniles
3. To Waive or Not to Waive
4. Police Interrogation
5. Juveniles Respond to Interrogation
6. Justice by Geography
7. True and False Confessions
8. Policy Reforms
Appendix 1. Data and Methodology
Appendix 2. Where the Girls Are
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR