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Criminogenic Risks Of Interrogation, Margareth Etienne, Richard Mcadams Apr 2023

Criminogenic Risks Of Interrogation, Margareth Etienne, Richard Mcadams

Indiana Law Journal

In the United States, moral minimization is a pervasive police interrogation tactic in which the detective minimizes the moral seriousness and harm of the offense, suggesting that anyone would have done the same thing under the circumstances, and casting blame away from the offender and onto the victim or society. The goal of these minimizations is to reinforce the guilty suspect’s own rationalizations or “neutralizations” of the crime. The official theory—posited in the police training manuals that recommend the tactic—is that minimizations encourage confessions by lowering the guilt or shame of associated with confessing to the crime. Yet the same …


Origins Of Crime: A New Evaluation Of The Cambridge Somerville Youth Study, By William Mccord, Joan Mccord, And Irving Kenneth Zola, Alfred R. Lindesmith Apr 1960

Origins Of Crime: A New Evaluation Of The Cambridge Somerville Youth Study, By William Mccord, Joan Mccord, And Irving Kenneth Zola, Alfred R. Lindesmith

Indiana Law Journal

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Police And Law In A Democratic Society, Jerome Hall Jan 1953

Police And Law In A Democratic Society, Jerome Hall

Indiana Law Journal

This paper consists of three public lectures delivered at the University of Chicago Law School on July 15, 22, and 23, 1952, as part of a conference on Police and Racial Tensions.