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REGULATING CUSTODIAL INTERVIEWS: THE EFFECTS OF THE POLICE AND

01 January 1991

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REGULATING CUSTODIAL INTERVIEWS: THE EFFECTS OF THE POLICE AND
CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT 1984: VOLUME 1: INTERIM FINDINGS: A
COMPARISON OF 1986 WITH 1979 refdoc August=1991

BOOKS/PAMPHLETS , User Ref = 351.74 , Acc Date = 17-Mar-89
B L Irving, I K McKenzie, M Weatheritt ed, Police Foundation PF,
1988 125pp, tables (PF, 314/316 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1
1AA) RB46562

When the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 became law, it
contained many procedural safeguards to redress the balance in
custodial interrogation in favour of the suspect, and its codes
and rules sought to remove ambiguities and uncertainties from the
relevant law. To assess the effect of the Act on the conduct of
custodial interrogation, it was proposed to the Economic and
Social Research Council that an original study at Brighton into
a sample of police interrogations by Brighton CID officers be
replicated twice in 1986 and 1987. This report describes the
findings of the first replication which compares 1979 and 1986.

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