If you have the right to remain silent during a custodial interrogation, why do so many innocent people choose to talk?

This is the first post in a series. A confession is often seen as the gold standard of evidence in a criminal case, leading to guilty verdicts even when there is no other evidence, when there’s a ...

Most Americans understand that the police are allowed to lie to suspects. Whether learned from watching procedurals, news reports or personal experience, it is generally recognized that deceit during ...

Thomas Perez Jr. was hours into an interrogation by police about his missing father when they dropped some devastating news: A body had been found. Thomas Perez Sr., they told his son, was dead. The ...

Learned helplessness: A term coined by psychologist Martin Seligman in the 1960s to describe the behavior of concentration ...

DECATUR - The police interrogation of Amanda Hamm days after her three children drowned in Clinton Lake fits the criteria of psychological coercion, according to testimony Tuesday at Hamm's murder ...