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R.A. Leo
3 peer-reviewed polygraph studies — 2004–2010.
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2004–2010Active period
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NameR.A. Leo
Publications3 peer-reviewed studies in this database
Active period2004–2010
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2010 Law and Human Behavior
Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations
False confessions result from interactions between situational pressures (excessive interrogation time, false evidence, minimization tactics) and individual vulnerabilities (juveniles, intellectual disability, mental illness), with 35% of false confessors in the… [002] 2009 Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the LawFalse Confessions: Causes, Consequences, and Implications
Three sequential errors—misclassification of innocence, guilt-presumptive accusatory interrogation with deception and coercion, and contamination through postadmission narrative shaping—systematically produce false confessions. Confession evidence is uniquely potent in biasing fact-finders toward… [003] 2004 North Carolina Law ReviewThe Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World
More than 80% of false confessions occurred in homicide cases, and 81% of proven false confessors who proceeded to trial were convicted by juries despite their later proven innocence. Youth…Explore all research.
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