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Calls for more awareness of false confessions

01 January 1991

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Calls for more awareness of false confessions
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The British Psychological Society have said that `safety nets' need to
be secured at all levels of the criminal justice system to ensure that
wrongful convictions are not made against adults who falsely confess to
crimes committed by other people. In a report submitted to the inquiry
into the Guildford 4, the BPS calls for more research on the effects of
interrogation techniques and conditions, and the monitoring of court
cases in which confession evidence is crucial and its reliability
disputed. Research is presently being carried out at the Bethlem Royal
Hospital, London, into false and retracted confessions. (Independent
29.10.90)

IRR Police-Media Bulletin, no 65. Institute of Race Relations, 2-6 Leeke
Street, London WC1X 9HS

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