A renowned criminologist’s experiment with ChatGPT demonstrates the destructive power of police to elicit false confessions.

Most people believe they would never confess to a crime they didn’t commit. The idea feels totally counterintuitive to most of us: why would anyone willingly admit to something that could lead to ...

Believe it or not, innocent people do confess to crimes they did not commit – as did yogurt shop murder defendant Michael Scott, says lawyer, sociologist, and University of San Francisco professor ...

30 incarcerated people accused ex-Detroit cop, Barbara "The Closer" Simon, of abusive tactics and threats to help secure ...

AMES, Iowa – Imagine if you were wrongly accused of a crime. Would you be stressed? Anyone would be, but Iowa State University researchers found the innocent are often less stressed than the guilty.

Popular belief tends to hold that if a person confesses to a crime then most likely they are guilty of that crime. Belief and fact are two very different things though. In reality, false confessions ...

A former Detroit cop is at the center of at least six murder investigations that have been overturned or vacated after ...

In 1995, Daniel Taylor was convicted of a double murder in Chicago in what seemed to be a clear-cut case: he gave police a signed confession. But now his supporters — including Northwestern University ...

Rory Lancman, a member of both the New York State Assembly Codes and Judiciary Committees and appellate counsel to Morelli Ratner PC, writes: In last month's highly anticipated decision, the Court of ...