Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely,
those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time--in
police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military.
Psychologist Saul Kassin, the world's leading expert on false
confessions, explains how interrogators trick innocent people into
confessing, and then how the criminal justice system deludes us
into believing these confessions. Duped reveals how innocent men,
women, and children, intensely stressed and befuddled by lawful
weapons of psychological interrogation, are induced into
confession, no matter how horrific the crime. By featuring riveting
case studies, highly original research, work by the Innocence
Project, and quotes from real-life exonerees, Kassin tells the
story of how false confessions happen, and how they corrupt
forensics, witnesses, and other evidence, force guilty pleas, and
follow defendants for their entire lives-- even after they are
exonerated by DNA. Starting in the 1980's, Dr. Kassin pioneered the
scientific study of interrogations and confessions. Since then, he
has been on the forefront of research and advocacy for those
wrongfully convicted by police-induced false confessions. Examining
famous cases like the Central Park jogger case and Amanda Knox
case, as well as stories of ordinary innocent people trapped into
confession, Dr. Kassin exposes just how widespread this problem is.
Concluding with actionable solutions and proposals for legislative
reform, Duped shows why the stigma of confession persists and how
we can reform the criminal justice system to make it stop.
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