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Retracted Confessions: Legal, Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects

Published:1988-07 Issue:3 Volume:28 Page:187-194
ISSN:0025-8024
Container-title:Medicine, Science and the Law
language:en
Short-container-title:Med Sci Law

Author:

Gudjonsson Gisli H.¹,MacKeith James A. C.²

Affiliation:

1. Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, London, SE5 8AF

2. Consultant Psychiatrist, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Monks Orchard Road, Beckenham, Kent

Abstract

This brief review paper is concerned with the phenomenon of retracted confession statements from legal, psychological and psychiatric viewpoints. The importance of distinguishing between three psychologically different types of ‘false confession’ is emphasized. The paper provides the clinician with a conceptual framework and ways of assessing alleged false confession cases.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/002580248802800302

Reference17 articles.

1. Baldwin J., McConville M. (1980) Confessions in Crown Court Trials. Royal Commission on Criminal Procedure, Research Study No. 5. London, HMSO.

2. Fisher Report (1977) Report of an Inquiry by the Hon. Sir Henry Fisher into the circumstances leading to the trial of three persons on charges arising out of the death of Maxwell Confait and the fire at 27 Doggett Road, London SE6. London, HMSO.

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