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CONFESSIONS IN CROWN COURT TRIALS

01 January 1991

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CONFESSIONS IN CROWN COURT TRIALS
refdoc July=1991

BOOKS/PAMPHLETS User Ref = P52902
J Baldwin M McConville Royal Commission on Criminal
Procedure
HMSO, 1980 39pp, tables (Criminal Procedure Research
Studies 5) RP52902

Describes the research methods used, then provides a content
analysis of the prosecution evidence in Crown Court cases.
Covers the nature of defendants' statements and their
relationship to other evidence, the circumstances in which
statements are made, characteristics of defendants
making confessions, and the relationship between offence
type and confession.

United Kingdom, law, justice, crime, police

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