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The language of confession, interrogation and deception /

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This book examines criminal confessions, the interrogations that elicit confessions, and the deceptive language that plays a role in the actual confession. The author presents transcripts from numerous interrogations and analyzes how language is used, how constitutional rights are protected (or not)...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shuy, Roger W.
Corporate Author: Sage Publications
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, c1998.
Series:Empirical linguistics series.
Subjects:
Police questioning > United States > Case studies.
Confession (Law) > United States > Cases.
Right to counsel > United States > Cases.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book examines criminal confessions, the interrogations that elicit confessions, and the deceptive language that plays a role in the actual confession. The author presents transcripts from numerous interrogations and analyzes how language is used, how constitutional rights are protected (or not), and discusses consistency, truthfulness, suggestibility, written confessions and unvalidated confessions.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 205 pages).
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781452229133 (ebook) :