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- PhD Psychology Stanford University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard A. Leo is the Hamill Family Professor of Law and Psychology at the University of San Francisco School of Law, and a Fellow in the Institute for Legal Research at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He previously taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder from 1994 to 1997, and at the University of California, Irvine from 1997 to 2006. He is known for his research on police interrogation practices, false confessions, and wrongful convictions. He was elected as a Guggenheim fellow in 2011 and was a fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences from 2014 to 2015.
Richard Leo's Published Works
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Published Works
- Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations (2010) (494)
- Inside the Interrogation Room (1996) (395)
- The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World (2004) (382)
- Police Interviewing and Interrogation: A Self-Report Survey of Police Practices and Beliefs (2007) (311)
- The Consequences of False Confessions: Deprivations of Liberty and Miscarriages of Justice in the Age of Psychological Interrogation (1998) (287)
- Police Interrogation and American Justice (2008) (191)
- Miranda's Revenge: Police Interrogation as a Confidence Game (1996) (146)
- False confessions: causes, consequences, and implications. (2009) (122)
- The Decision to Confess Falsely: Rational Choice and Irrational Action (2008) (107)
- Rethinking the Study of Miscarriages of Justice: (2005) (96)
- From coercion to deception: the changing nature of police interrogation in America (1992) (89)
- What do potential jurors know about police interrogation techniques and false confessions? (2009) (88)
- The Impact of Miranda Revisited (1996) (87)
- The Social Psychology of Police Interrogation: The Theory and Classification of True and False Confessions (2008) (83)
- One Hundred Years Later: Wrongful Convictions After a Century of Research (2010) (79)
- Jurors believe interrogation tactics are not likely to elicit false confessions: will expert witness testimony inform them otherwise? (2011) (73)
- Police-Induced Confessions, Risk Factors, and Recommendations: Looking Ahead (2010) (69)
- The Three Errors: Pathways to False Confession and Wrongful Conviction (2010) (63)
- From False Confession to Wrongful Conviction: Seven Psychological Processes (2010) (54)
- ‘Interrogation-Related Regulatory Decline:’ Ego-Depletion, Failures of Self-Regulation and the Decision to Confess (2012) (53)
- Trial and tribulations: Courts, ethnography, and the need for an evidentiary privilege for academic researchers (1995) (50)
- Predicting Erroneous Convictions: A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice (2013) (47)
- Predicting Erroneous Convictions (2013) (42)
- The Ethics of Deceptive Interrogation (1992) (40)
- Questioning the Relevance of Miranda in the Twenty-First Century (2001) (39)
- The Third Degree and the Origins of Psychological Interrogation in the United States (2004) (33)
- Bringing Reliability Back in: False Confessions and Legal Safeguards in the Twenty-First Century (2008) (28)
- The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts (2020) (28)
- Adapting to Miranda: Modern Interrogators' Strategies for Dealing with the Obstacles Posed by Miranda (2008) (27)
- The Miranda Debate: Law, Justice, and Policing (1998) (24)
- The Truth About False Confessions and Advocacy Scholarship (2008) (22)
- Studying Wrongful Convictions: Learning from Social Science (2009) (22)
- Police Interrogation and Social Control (1994) (21)
- Selling Confession: Setting the Stage With the “Sympathetic Detective With a Time-Limited Offer” (2010) (20)
- Strategies for Preventing False Confessions and Their Consequences (2010) (19)
- The Yale White-Collar Crime Project: A Review and Critique (1993) (19)
- Mandate the Electronic Recording of Police Interrogations (2007) (18)
- Psychological and Cultural Aspects of Interrogations and False Confessions: Using Research to Inform Legal Decision-Making (2009) (18)
- Miranda and the Problem of False Confessions (1998) (17)
- The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four (2008) (16)
- Confessions of Guilt: From Torture to Miranda and Beyond (2012) (15)
- Research and Expert Testimony on Interrogations and Confessions (2007) (15)
- Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada (2020) (14)
- The Effects of Miranda v. Arizona: "Embedded" in Our National Culture? (2002) (14)
- Promoting Accuracy in the Use of Confession Evidence: An Argument for Pretrial Reliability Assessments to Prevent Wrongful Convictions (2013) (14)
- The Criminology of Wrongful Conviction (2017) (13)
- Using the Innocent to Scapegoat Miranda: Another Reply to Paul Cassell (1998) (12)
- The Path to Exoneration (2015) (10)
- Acute Suggestibility in Police Interrogation: Self-Regulation Failure as a Primary Mechanism of Vulnerability (2012) (10)
- The ethics of deceptive research roles reconsidered: A response to Kai Erikson (1996) (9)
- Has the Innocence Movement Become an Exoneration Movement? The Risks and Rewards of Redefining Innocence (2016) (7)
- Commentary: overcoming judicial preferences for person- versus situation-based analyses of interrogation-induced confessions. (2010) (7)
- Police Scholarship for the Future: Resisting the Pull of the Policy Audience (2008) (7)
- Interrogation Through Pragmatic Implication: Sticking to the Letter of the Law While Violating its Intent (2010) (6)
- His Story, Her Story: Sexual Miscommunication, Motivated Remembering, and Intoxication as Pathways to Honest False Testimony Regarding Sexual Consent (2014) (6)
- The Social and Legal Construction of Repressed Memory (1997) (6)
- Innocent Defendants: Divergent Case Outcomes and What They Teach Us (2013) (6)
- Miranda, Confessions, and Justice: Lessons for Japan? (2002) (6)
- To Walk in Their Shoes: The Problem of Missing, Misrepresented, and Misunderstood Context in Judging Criminal Confessions (2012) (6)
- Structural Police Deception in American Police Interrogation: A Closer Look at Minimization and Maximization (2020) (5)
- Why Interrogation Contamination Occurs (2013) (5)
- The Gatehouses and Mansions: Fifty Years Later (2010) (4)
- To Walk in Their Shoes: The Problem of Missing, Misunderstood, and Misrepresented Context in Judging Criminal Confessions (2012) (4)
- The Problem of Interrogation-Induced False Confession: Sources of Failure in Prevention and Detection (2012) (4)
- MENTAL HEALTH STATUS AND VULNERABILITY TO POLICE INTERROGATION TACTICS (2007) (4)
- Police Interrogation, False Confessions, and Alleged Child Abuse Cases (2017) (3)
- Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Response to Paul Cassell's 'Balanced Approach' to the False Confession Problem (2008) (3)
- Three Prongs of the Confession Problem: Issues and Proposed Solutions (2010) (3)
- Beating a Bum Rap (2004) (3)
- CRIMINAL LAW INSIDE THE INTERROGATION ROOM * (2017) (3)
- False Confessions and the Constitution: Problems, Possibilities and Solutions (2012) (2)
- A Damning Cascade of Investigative Errors: Flaws in Homicide Investigation in the USA (2016) (2)
- When Exoneration Seems Hopeless (2016) (2)
- Police Interrogation and Coercion in Domestic American History: Lessons for the War on Terror (2010) (2)
- When Exoneration Seems Hopeless: The Special Vulnerability of Sexual Abuse Suspects to False Confession (2014) (1)
- The Miranda App: Metaphor and Machine (2016) (1)
- Moving Targets: Placing the Good Faith Doctrine in the Context of Fragmented Policing (2010) (1)
- Police Interrogations, False Confessions, and Alleged Child Abuse Cases (2017) (1)
- Disputed Interrogation Techniques in America: True and False Confessions and the Estimation and Valuation of Type I and II Errors (2013) (1)
- False Confessions in the Twenty-First Century (2016) (1)
- Mental Health and False Confessions (2017) (1)
- CHAPTER 8. Policy Directions (2008) (1)
- Songs of Orientation: Cultural Liturgies, the History Classroom and the ‘Winter Christian’ of Discontent (2018) (1)
- CHAPTER 7. Miscarriages of Justice (2008) (1)
- His Story; Her Story (2016) (1)
- Television Doesn't Do Justice to Real-Life 'Confessions': San Francisco Chronicle (2000) (0)
- CHAPTER 4. The Structure and Psychology of American Police Interrogation (2008) (0)
- Dr. Richard Leo Report on Sedley Alley (2019) (0)
- Theorizing Failed Prosecutions (2021) (0)
- Affidavit of Dr. Richard A. Leo filed in State v. Dassey (2009) (0)
- What Innocence Means Today and Why It Matters (2015) (0)
- Interrogation and False Confessions in Rape Cases (2015) (0)
- Disputed Interrogation Techniques in America (2016) (0)
- Interrogations and Confessions (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER 2. The Third Degree (2008) (0)
- The Adams Center Presents: Richard Leo (2014) (0)
- Publications received (2008) (0)
- History of Education: Seeking the Common Good as a Collective Social Endeavor (2020) (0)
- Stage-setting in police interrogation: Interactive effects of a "pretext" for interrogation and "minimization" (2010) (0)
- Some Thoughts about Police and Crime (2019) (0)
- Letters to the Journal: Professors Leo and Gould reply to Professors Gross and O'Brien (2011) (0)
- Police Interrogation and Suspect Confessions: Social Science, Law and Public Policy (2017) (0)
- Honest False Testimony in Allegations of Sexual Offences (2015) (0)
- Voices on Innocence (2016) (0)
- Miranda Changes the Confessions World (2012) (0)
- United States Supreme Court Amicus Curiae Brief Filed by Richard A. Leo in Florida v. Powell, 130 S. Ct. 1195 (2010) (0)
- The Justice Gap and the Promise of Criminological Research. Russian Journal of Economics and Law (2022) (0)
- Interrogating Guilty Suspects: Why Sipowicz Never Has to Admit He is Wrong (2005) (0)
- Early American Interrogation Law (2012) (0)
- Interrogation LawThe Future (2012) (0)
- Response by Richard A. Leo and Jon B. Gould (2010) (0)
- Analyzing Videotaped Interrogations and Confessions (2016) (0)
- The Rise of Rationality in Interrogation Law (2012) (0)
- Police Interrogation and Suspect Confessions (2018) (0)
- Responses to Emery (1998) (0)
- Early Interrogation Law (2012) (0)
- The “American Method”—The Third Degree (2012) (0)
- False Confessions and the Constitution (2013) (0)
- CHAPTER 1. Police Interrogation and the American Adversary System (2008) (0)
- CHAPTER 3. Professionalizing Police Interrogation (2008) (0)
- Interrogation and the Sexual Assault Suspect: On the Synergy between Pretext Caller and Police Interrogator (2020) (0)
- Child Abuse Evidence: New Perspectives from Law, Medicine, Psychology & Statistics: Question and Answer Session (2017) (0)
- It's TV, Not a True 'Confession': Los Angeles Times (2000) (0)
- The Sound of Silence: Miranda Waivers, Selective Literalism and Social Context (2014) (0)
- Interrogation-Induced False Confession (2011) (0)
- The Miranda “Revolution” (2012) (0)
- Wrongful Convictions : Learning From Social Science + (2009) (0)
- Law of Police Interrogation (2012) (0)
- Interrogative Suggestibility (2021) (0)
- An Early Peek at the Results: An Empirical Study of Wrongful Convictions vs. "Near Misses" (2012) (0)
- Paul Tappan Award Winner Keynote Address: The Justice Gap and the Promise of Criminological Research (2014) (0)
- CHAPTER 5. Constructing Culpability (2008) (0)
- Reply to Samuel R. Gross and Barbara O'Brien (2011) (0)
- English Interrogation Law from 1674–1848 (2012) (0)
- CHAPTER 6. False Confessions (2008) (0)
- The Gatehouses and Mansions: 50 Years Later (2010) (0)
- CRIMINAL LAW THE IMPACT OF MIRANDA REVISITED * (2017) (0)
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