Juveniles possess less maturity, intelligence, and competence than adults, heightening their vulnerability in the justice system. For this reason, states try juveniles in separate courts and use different sentencing standards than for adults. Yet, when police bring kids in for questioning, they use the same interrogation tactics they use for adults, including trickery, deception, and lying to elicit confessions or to produce incriminating evidence against the defendants. In Kids, Cops, and Confessions, Barry Feld offers the first report of what actually happens when police question juveniles. Drawing on remarkable data, Feld analyzes interrogation tapes and transcripts, police reports, juvenile court filings and sentences, and probation and sentencing reports, describing in rich detail what actually happens in the interrogation room. Contrasting routine interrogation and false confessions enables police, lawyers, and judges to identify interrogations that require enhanced scrutiny, to adopt policies to protect citizens, and to assure reliability and integrity of the justice system. Feld has produced an invaluable look at how the justice system really works.
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Juveniles possess less maturity, intelligence, and competence than adults, heightening their vulnerability in the justice system. For this reason, states try juveniles in separate courts and use different sentencing standards than for adults. This book offers the report of what actually happens when police question juveniles.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Interrogating Criminal Suspects: Law on the Books and Law in Action 2. Questioning Juveniles: Law and Developmental Psychology3. To Waive or Not to Waive: That Is the Question 4. Police Interrogation: On the Record 5. Juveniles Respond to Interrogation: Outcomes and Consequences 6. Justice by Geography: Context, Race, and Confessions 7. True and False Confessions: Different Outcomes, Different Processes 8. Policy Reforms Appendix 1: Data and Methodology Appendix 2: Where the Girls Are Notes References Index About the Author
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A rich blend of top-notch empirical scholarship and doctrinal analysis, Feld's book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of police interrogationsand a major step forward in achieving justice for juveniles . . . an empirical tour de force.
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ISBN
9781479816385
Publisert
2014-09-22
Utgiver
Vendor
New York University Press
Vekt
476 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

Barry C. Feld is Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He is the author and editor of many books, including The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice (NYU Press, 2019), Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room (NYU Press, 2014), and Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Oxford University Press (1999).