- Represents the latest advances of the role of psychological factors
in inducing potentially unreliable self-incriminating behavior
- Chapters are authored by a diverse group psychologists,
criminologists, and legal scholars who have contributed significantly to
the collective understanding of the pressures that insidiously operate
when the goal of law enforcement is to elicit self-incriminating
behavior from suspected criminals
- Reviews and analyzes the extant literature in this area as well as
discussing how this knowledge can be used to help bring about needed
changes in the legal system