Kids, Cops, And Confessions: Inside The Interrogation Room (Youth, Crime, And Justice, 3)

Juveniles possess less maturity, intelligence, and competence than adults, which heightens 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 tactics they use for adults to elicit confessions or to produce incriminating evidence to use against them. In Kids, Cops, and Confessions, the author offers the first report of what actually happens when police question juveniles. Analyzing interrogation tapes and transcripts, police reports, juvenile court filings, and probation and sentencing reports, he describes in rich detail what actually happens inside the interrogation room.

• • Author: Barry C. Feld
• • Publisher: Nyu Press
• • Publication Date: Sep 22, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 351 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1479816388
• • ISBN-13: 9781479816385