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Title

The language of confession, interrogation and deception / Roger W. Shuy.

Author

Shuy, Roger W.

Publication

Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1998.

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Description

viii, 205 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Taking a linguistic point of view, Roger W. Shuy offers a practical explanation of how confessions work. Using his 1993 benchmark work Language Crimes as his model, Shuy examines criminal confessions, the interrogations that elicit them, and the deceptive language that plays a role in the confession event. He presents transcripts from numerous interrogations and analyzes how language is used, how constitutional rights are protected (or not), consistency and truthfulness, suggestibility, written confessions, as well as unvalidated confessions. He concludes the volume with explicit advice on how to conduct interrogations that will yield credible evidence."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Empirical linguistics series

Uniform Title

Empirical linguistics.

Subject

• Police questioning > United States > Case studies
• Confession (Law) > United States > Case studies
• Right to counsel > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The confession event -- Language of the police interrogation -- Interrogating versus interviewing -- Case study of the interrogations of Steve Allen -- Was Chris Jerue lying? -- Did Donald Goltz believe what he confessed? -- Some problems with police interrogation -- Language and constitutional rights -- Miranda rights in the DWI arrest -- Were the rights of Jesse Moffet abused? -- Were the rights of Charles Lorraine violated? -- Language of truthfulness and deception -- Was Robert Alben lying? -- Was Jessie Moffett lying? -- Language of written confessions -- Michael Carter's written statement -- The written statement as a clue to deception -- Language of the implicational confession -- Surrogate confession of DeWayne Hill -- Language of the interrogator as therapist -- Persuasion of Beverly Monroe -- Inferred confession -- Case study of Shiv Panini -- Uunvalidated confession -- Why did Kevin Rogers confess? -- An effective interrogation and a valid confession -- Case study of Pamela Gardner -- Some basic principles of interrogation, confession and deceptive language -- Be conversational --Ask clear and explicit questions -- Do not mix interview types -- Look for inconsistencies before trying to detect deception -- Tape record all contacts.

ISBN

• 0761913467 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0761913459 (cloth : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^97033752^

OCLC

• 37443109
• SCSB-10179473

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library