This timely volume focuses on confessions and guilty pleas of youth, providing authoritative, integrated coverage of the developmental science relevant to decisions to self-incriminate and the implications for practice and policy.
In recent years there has been a surge in empirical research on confessions and pleas in general, and among youth specifically. Reforms have been proposed, and some have been adopted. However, in many ways youth continue to be treated either the same as adults or with well-intended, but often misguided, youth-specific procedures based on “common sense” rather than robust developmental science. Growing interest in the topic, coupled with a high volume of scholarship that is not yet reflected in policy, makes the time ripe for this book.
The editors assembled an international group of experts to contribute 27 highly focused chapters reviewing research and theory, examining current practice and procedure, and providing suggestions for empirically based reform. A comprehensive, first-of-its kind work, the book links underlying developmental science with applied scholarship and analysis to help inform practice and facilitate development of empirically supported policy and law that takes appropriate account of the developmental capabilities and limitations of youth suspects and defendants.
Chapters are written for researchers, practitioners, and students across a range of fields, including psychology, law, criminal justice, social work, and law enforcement. The book will be a must-read for those interested in understanding youth self-incrimination in the interrogation room and in the courtroom.
Foreword
Chapter 1. Confessions and Guilty Pleas of Youth: An Introduction
Lindsay C. Malloy, Tina M. Zottoli, and Rebecca K. Helm
Section I. Developmental and Legal Foundations
Chapter 2. Neurodevelopmental Foundations for Understanding Youths' Decision-Making
Jill Grose-Fifer
Chapter 3. Socio-Emotional Perspectives on Youth Decision-Making
Cortney Simmons, Imani Randolph, Jung Min Lee, and Caitlin Cavanagh
Chapter 4. Suggestibility and Misinformation Effects in Youth
Kamala London and Hera Yang
Chapter 5. Perceptions of Youth Suspects and Defendants: When Mock Jurors Get It Right Versus Miss the Mark
Margaret C. Stevenson, Kelly C. Burke, and Gabriela S. Rachman
Chapter 6. Legal Backdrop: Juvenile Justice Systems in the United States, Canada, England, and Wales
Christopher M. King, Sarah Hitchcock, Rachel Bomysoad, Sana Vora, Chinwe Ossai, and Savannah Cuellar
Section II. Interrogations and Confessions
Chapter 7. The Lee Arthur Hester Case Revisited
Steven A. Drizin
Chapter 8. Confessions: History, Research, and Current Directions
Saul M. Kassin
Chapter 9. Youth and Miranda/Police Cautions
Emily Haney-Caron, Kaillee Philleo, and Sydney Baker
Chapter 10. A Decade After J.D.B.: Youth and Custody
Fabiana Alceste and Reece Butler
Chapter 11. Police Station Legal Advice and Out-of-Court Disposals for Youth: An International Perspective
Vicky Kemp and Cerys Gibson
Chapter 12. Youth and False Confessions: An International Perspective
Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Chapter 13. Trauma and Youths' False and Coerced Confessions
Lucy Guarnera and Hayley Cleary
Chapter 14. Racial Criminalization, Stereotype Threat, and Interrogations of Youth
Cynthia J. Najdowski
Chapter 15. Interrogations in School Contexts: Psychological and Legal Considerations
Mark D. Snow and Lindsay C. Malloy
Section III. Guilty Pleas
Chapter 16. False Guilty Pleas: A Case Study in Emerging Adulthood, Coercive Tactics, and a Flawed System
Vanessa Meterko and Jaime S. Henderson
Chapter 16. False Guilty Pleas: A Case Study in Emerging Adulthood, Coercive Tactics, and a Flawed System
Vanessa Meterko and Jaime S. Henderson
Chapter 17. Guilty Pleas: History, Research, and Future Directions
Miko M. Wilford and Annabelle Frazier
Chapter 18. Cognitive Development and Guilty Plea Decision-Making
Rebecca K. Helm and Valerie F. Reyna
Chapter 19. Guilty Pleas and the Psycho-Legal Abilities of Youth
Tina M. Zottoli, Tarika Daftary-Kapur, Kimberly Echevarria, and Aliya J. Birnbaum
Chapter 20. Legal Procedures: Protecting Youth Making Plea Decisions or Exacerbating Vulnerabilities?
Talley Bettens, Allison D. Redlich, and Rebecca K. Helm
Chapter 21. System Disparities: Impact of Racial and Socioeconomic Inequalities on the Plea Process for Youth
Martine Fredrickson and Vanessa A. Edkins
Section IV. Confessions and Guilty Pleas in Practice
Chapter 22. Clinical Practice: Evaluating Youth Who Make Admissions of Guilt
Antoinette Kavanaugh and Kathryn Rea Smith
Chapter 23. Respectful Representation: Practical Guidance for Effective Counseling, Investigation, and Criminal Representation of Youth Who Have Confessed
Maria Hawilo and Megan Crane
Chapter 24. The Roles of Parents and Appropriate Adults in Youth Interrogation and Guilty Pleas
Jennifer Woolard, Grace Hickman, and Erika Fountain
Chapter 25. Applying the "PEACE Model" to Youth Suspect Interviews: Enabling a "Child First" Approach
Martin Vaughan, Rebecca Milne, and Ray Bull
Chapter 26. Expert Testimony on Youth Admissions
Jeffrey Kaplan and Brian L. Cutler
Chapter 27. Conclusions and Emerging Issues
Lindsay C. Malloy, Rebecca K. Helm, and Tina M. Zottoli
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