Legal Research

Professor Richard Leo's new book, Police Interrogation and American Justice, will be available from Harvard University Press in February 2008.  Professor Leo "draws on extensive research to argue that confessions are inherently suspect and that coercive interrogation has led to false confession and wrongful conviction. He looks at police evidence in the court, the nature and disappearance of the brutal 'third degree,' the reforms of the mid-twentieth century, and how police can persuade suspects to waive their Miranda rights."  Police Interrogation and American Justice will be available in the Zief Law Library in a few weeks.  You can find Richard Leo's faculty profile here along with a list of his extensive scholarly works on criminal justice issues.