Silence is Golden

People have a strange and worrying tendency to admit to things they have not, in fact, done August 13, 2011 The Economist

Inside Interrogation: The Lie, The Bluff, and False Confessions

Jennifer T. Perillo • Saul M. Kassin August 24, 2010 Law and Human Behavior (published online)

Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations

Saul M. Kassin, Steven A. Drizin, Thomas Grisso, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Richard A. Leo, and Allison D. Redlich; Published online: 15 July 2009, American Psychology-Law Society/Division 41 of the American Psychological Association 2009

The Substance of False Confessions

University of Virginia Law Review article by Brandon L. Garrett analyzing 40 false confessions of exonerated individuals who had been incarcerated for rape and murder.

Techniques and Controversies in the Interrogation of Suspects: The Artful Practice versus the Scientific Study

By Allison D. Redlich, Policy Research Associates and Christian Meissner, University of Texas, El Paso

Police-Induced Confessions, Risk Factors, and Recommendations: Looking Ahead

By Saul M. Kassin, Steven A. Drizin, Thomas Grisso, Gisli H. Gudjonsson, Richard A. Leo, Allison D. Redlich; Published online: 29 January 2010, American Psychology-Law Society - Division 41 of the American Psychological Association 2010

True Stories of False Confessions

Book by Steve Drizin

Police Interrogations and Confessions

Published by Saul Kassin, Professor of Psychology, Williams College

Creating False Memories

Article by Elizabeth F. Loftus, University Of Washington,Seattle, Washington 98195, published in Scientific American, September 1997, Vol 277 #3, Pages 70-75

Criminal Law Resources: False Confessions LLRX

This site has links to a wide variety of research papers, articles and resources on false confessions.

False Confessions: Annotated Clinical Research

By Joe Wheeler Dixon, PhD, JD

How to Get a False Confession in Ten Easy Steps

Confessions of an interrogator: Ten principles that guide a successful interrogation-by making it easier for a suspect to confess, by Nathan J. Gordon Security Management, October 1, 2002 This article by the author of "Effective Interviewing and Interrogation Techniques" is a nice short primer on the kinds of interrogations techniques that are seen time and time again in false confession cases. It's another way of packaging the Reid technique. Notice that there is not even the hint of the possibility of false confessions and the complete confidence of the interrogator in his ability to read the "buy signs" of his suspect—the body language and other physical reactions that suggest the suspect's guilt and that he is ready to confess.

The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-Dna World

By Steven A. Drizin & Richard A. Leo, Association of American Law Schools

Social Science Research Network: False Confession Papers

By Richard A. Leo, University of San Francisco - School of Law

Law & Psychiatry: Mental Illness, Police Interrogations, and the Potential for False Confession

Psychiatric Services, by Allison Redlich, Ph.D. January 2004

Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies. in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial

Case Studies in Use of DNA Evidence Series: NIJ Research Report, June 1996

Rutgers University Law Review article on wrongful convictions of youth

Center on Wrongful Convictions Youth(CWCY) law review article analyzing 103 wrongful convictions of defendants under 20 years of age. Study found that over 30 percent of the wrongful convcitons involved a false confession among other important facts.

The Psychology of False Confessions

Article by Richard Conti, Boise State University.