Police Interrogation and American Justice

Richard A. Leo

  • 2009 Herbert Jacob Book Prize, Law and Society Association

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Police Interrogation and the American Adversary System

2. The Third Degree

3. Professionalizing Police Interrogation

4. The Structure and Psychology of Police Interrogation

5. Constructing Culpability

6. False Confessions

7. Miscarriages of Justice

8. Policy Directions

Conclusion

References

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Richard A. Leo is Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco.