True Stories of False Confessions

by Warden, Rob

• ISBN13: 9780810126039
• ISBN10: 0810126036
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-06-11
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

That An Innocent Person would confess to a crime that he or she did not commit is one of the most perplexing, tragic, and counterintuitive phenomena known to American criminal justice. In True Stories of False Confessions, Rob Warden and Steven A. Drizin have amassed and adapted thirty-eight remarkable pieces of reporting on the subject, with contributions from John Grisham, Alex Kotlowitz, Sydney H. Schanberg, and Dana L. Priest, among others.

Author Biography

Rob Warden is a prize-winning legal affairs journalist and confounder and executive director of the world-renowned Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. Steven A. Drizin is a clinical professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law, legal director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, and one of the nation's leading authorities on police interrogations and false confessions.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Brainwashing	p. 3
Desperation	p. 99
Child Abuse	p. 173
Inference	p. 249
Opportunism	p. 315
Unrequited Innocence	p. 413
Policy Recommendations	p. 495
Index of Defendants and Suspects	p. 503
Index of Victims	p. 505
Index of Jurisdictions	p. 507
Notes on Contributors	p. 509
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