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Jailhouse Informants - Psychological and Legal Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Jailhouse Informants - Psychological and Legal Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Psychology and Crime
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Offers a new understanding of jailhouse informants and the role
they play in wrongful convictions Jailhouse informants-witnesses
who testify in a criminal trial, often in exchange for some
incentive-are particularly persuasive to jurors. A jailhouse
informant usually claims to have heard the defendant confess to a
crime while they were incarcerated together. Research shows that
such testimony increases the likelihood of a guilty verdict. But it
is also a leading contributor to wrongful convictions. Informants,
after all, are generally criminals who are offering testimony in
return for some key motivator, such as a reduced sentence. This
book offers a broad overview of the history and legal and
psychological issues surrounding the testimony of jailhouse
informants. It provides groundbreaking psychological research to
address how they are used, the number of convictions that have
ultimately been overturned on other evidence, how such informants
are perceived in the courtroom, and by what means jurors might be
informed about the risks of this type of testimony. The volume
provides a much-needed examination of legal remedies to the impact
of jailhouse informants and suggests best practices in dealing with
jailhouse informant testimony in court. There is a critical need to
understand the influence of jailhouse informants and how their
testimony can best be handled in court in the interests of justice.
Jailhouse Informants is the first work of its kind that rises to
the challenge of answering these difficult questions.
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