Interrogations, Confessions, and Entrapment

G. Daniel Lassiter is Professor of Psychology at Ohio University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1984 and thereafter began a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Northwestern University. He was a Visiting Faculty at the University of Florida before arriving at Ohio University in 1987.

• 1: Exposing Coercive Influences in the Criminal Justice System: An Agenda for Legal Psychology in the Twenty-First Century.- 2: Questions.- 3: The Third Degree and the Origins of Psychological Interrogation in the United States.- 4: “You’re Guilty, So Just Confess!” Cognitive and Behavioral Confirmation Biases in the Interrogation Room.- 5: The Police Interrogation of Children and Adolescents.- 6: Tales From the Juvenile Confession Front: A Guide to How Standard Police Interrogation Tactics Can Produce Coerced and False Confessions from Juvenile Suspects.- 7: Mental Retardation, Competency to Waive Miranda Rights, and False Confessions.- 8: Attempts to Improve the Police Interviewing of Suspects.- 9: Bias and Accuracy in the Evaluation of Confession Evidence.- 10: The Psychology of Entrapment.- 11: Expert Psychological Testimony on the Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions.- 12: So What’s a Concerned Psychologist to Do? Translating the Research on Interrogations, Confessions, and Entrapment into Policy.