Criminal Interrogation

Abstract

This is the Third Edition of what has become a paragon among criminal interrogation texts. Chapters have been added on interrogator qualification, legal aspects of confessions, the status of lie detection, and selected Supreme Court decisions from 1971 to 1979. The latter which supplements existing chapters on decisions since 1884, including the paramount Miranda and Escobedo decisions-analyzes 147 pertinent judgments. Equally thorough coverage is afforded psychological and technical considerations. The authors deftly blend all three elements - law, psychology; technique -and they explain the