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

While popular understanding may suggest that innocent people simply do not confess to crimes (“I would never confess to doing something that I did not actually do!”), the surprising fact is that false ...

Brown University’s Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve argues that false confessions stem from something more pernicious than shoddy ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new California law prohibits law enforcement from using threats or lies to get a minor to confess to a crime. The law faced opposition, but now a conservative district attorney is urging law ...

It happens more often than one might expect. According to the Innocence Project, fully one-quarter of wrongful convictions overturned by DNA evidence involve a false confession. Many involve promises ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Detroit police have failed to follow through on a promise to investigate a retired homicide detective accused of misconduct ...

WASHINGTON — In 2015, millions of people watched “Making a Murderer,” a Netflix documentary series about the murder prosecutions of two Wisconsin men. Opinions varied on the guilt of the program’s ...