A review of the role of the legal adviser in police stations

Pearse, John; Gudjónsson, Gisli H.

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“…Representation was also contracted out to independent personnel who are not necessarily fully trained legally and this can include former police officers. It was also shown that the quality of legal representation at the police station varies widely from very effective to ineffective and worst still adverse representation (McConville and Hodgson, 1993;Pearse and Gudjonsson, 1996;Ede and Shepherd, 2000). More recently, Pattenden and Skinns (2010) noted that the system has changed in that the police no longer put the suspect through to a legal advisor.…”

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Interviewing suspects under caution: problems for historical allegations

Hockey

2017

Journal of Criminal Psychology

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to illuminate to the academic and research audience the legal implications for suspects who are interviewed under caution for historical allegations, when the suspect's responses rely on episodic memory recall. Design/methodology/approach -The paper is a review of a multi-disciplinary literature base, necessary to understand the problem with the qualified right to silence. Findings -The findings suggest that more research work is needed in order to be able to assess the difficulties for a suspect faced with answering questions of an episodic nature and the subsequent implications for the defendant once on trial. Implications: the current situation can lead to miscarriages of justice, which are difficult to rectify. Originality/value -This paper brings together a number of sub sections of disciplines from criminal law, criminology, forensic psychology, and mainstream psychology (i.e. memory work) to identify a potentially serious problem for preventing miscarriages of justice with the current system of qualified rights to silence whilst being interviewed under caution in the case of historical allegations.

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Interviewing suspects under caution: problems for historical allegations

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2017

Journal of Criminal Psychology

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Police interviewing and psychological vulnerabilities: predicting the likelihood of a confession

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Gudjónsson

Clare

et al. 1998

J. Community. Appl. Soc. Psychol.

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This paper is concerned with examining the differences between people who confess and those who deny offences during a police interview. The main hypothesis under investigation is that psychologically vulnerable suspects are particularly likely to confess. This paper is also concerned with identifying variables that might be related to the confession process. One hundred and sixty suspects detained at two London police stations were assessed psychologically prior to being interviewed by the police. The results of this assessment, an analysis of the interview procedure and biographic details were subjected to a logistic regression analysis. There was no evidence to support our main hypothesis. However, suspects were more likely to confess if they reported having consumed an illicit (non‐prescribed) drug in the previous 24‐hour period, and less likely to confess when interviewed in the presence of a legal adviser or if they had experience of prison or custodial remand. In this study younger suspects were also more likely to confess. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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The Psychology of Interrogations and Confessions

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A review of the role of the legal adviser in police stations

Abstract: This article undertakes a brief review of research concerning the frequency and the quality of legal advice provided in police stations in England and

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Interviewing suspects under caution: problems for historical allegations

Interviewing suspects under caution: problems for historical allegations

Police interviewing and psychological vulnerabilities: predicting the likelihood of a confession

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