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Perceptions Of Juvenile Confessions As A Function Of Police Report And Questioning Quality, Morgan Andrews
Perceptions Of Juvenile Confessions As A Function Of Police Report And Questioning Quality, Morgan Andrews
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Recent research has shown that mock jurors are sensitive to interrogation coerciveness and its relation to risk of false confessions in adults if they can see interrogation tactics used, but not if provided with a police report that omits these tactics (Kassin et al., 2017). The present study was designed to extend these findings to a juvenile confession case. The current study analyzed the effects of interrogation quality and type of evidence presented on mock jurors' perceptions of a juvenile confession. Participants (N= 602) read a case in which coerciveness (highly vs slightly), police report type (accurate vs inaccurate vs …