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The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception - Shuy, Roger W
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From a linguistic perspective, this book is a practical explanation of how confessions work. Roger Shuy, author of the 1993 benchmark work, Language Crimes , examines criminal confessions, the interrogations that elicit confessions, and the deceptive language that plays a role in the actual confession. He presents transcripts from numerous interrogations and analyzes how language is used, how constitutional rights are not protected, and discusses consistency, truthfulness, suggestibility, and written and unvalidated ...

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The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception 1998, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks

ISBN-13: 9780761913450

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The Language of Confession, Interrogation, and Deception 1997, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks

ISBN-13: 9780761913467

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