Event Title
False Confessions : Why Innocent People Confess
Start Date
11-10-2011 7:30 AM
End Date
12-10-2011 9:00 AM
Description
Richard Leo, Richard A. Leo, Ph.D., J.D., is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco, a Fellow in the Institute of Legal Research at U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, and formerly a tenured professor of Psychology and Criminology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Leo is nationally and internationally recognized for his pioneering empirical research on police interrogation practices, the impact of Miranda, psychological coercion, false confessions, and wrongful convictions. Dr. Leo has authored more 70 articles in leading scientific and legal journals as well as several books, including the multiple award-winning Police Interrogation and American Justice (Harvard University Press, 2008) and, with Tom Wells, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions and the Norfolk Four (The New Press, 2008).
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False Confessions : Why Innocent People Confess
Richard Leo, Richard A. Leo, Ph.D., J.D., is a professor of law at the University of San Francisco, a Fellow in the Institute of Legal Research at U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, and formerly a tenured professor of Psychology and Criminology at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Leo is nationally and internationally recognized for his pioneering empirical research on police interrogation practices, the impact of Miranda, psychological coercion, false confessions, and wrongful convictions. Dr. Leo has authored more 70 articles in leading scientific and legal journals as well as several books, including the multiple award-winning Police Interrogation and American Justice (Harvard University Press, 2008) and, with Tom Wells, The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions and the Norfolk Four (The New Press, 2008).