Richard A Leo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1493533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard A Leo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard A |
| FAMILY NAME | Leo |
| SIGNATURE | LEO R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-1154-9011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exonerations: Causes, Consequences, and Reforms
Exonerations following the wrongful conviction of the innocent are now commonplace and widely recognized. And yet wrongful convictions continue to plague the American criminal justice system. In this article, we discuss and critique the definition and concept of an exoneration and explore the growing influence of the National Registry of Exonerations, an online database and repository of wrongful convictions that has inspired substantial scholars…
How sleep disruption impacts the evidentiary value of statements and confessions: Toward evidence-based standards
Police-induced confessions, 2.0: Risk factors and recommendations
Wrongful conviction databases have shed light on the fact that innocent people can be induced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, core principles of psychology, and forensic studies involving multiple methodologies, this article updates the original Scientific Review Paper (Kassin et al., 2010) on the causes, consequences, and remedies for police-induced false confessions. First, we describe the situational and …
Confessions of GuiltFrom Torture to Miranda and Beyond: From torture to Miranda and beyond
The extreme interrogation tactics permitted after the 9/11 attacks illustrate that the level of fear in society can influence interrogation law. Confessions of Guilt tells the story of how, over the centuries, law moved from indifference about extreme pressure to concern over the slightest pressure, and back again. Five movements from one extreme to the other can be detected in Anglo-American law. The book argues that the movements are largely ca…
Interrogation-related regulatory decline: Ego depletion, failures of self-regulation, and the decision to confess
As reflected in rulings ranging from Trial Courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, our judiciary commonly views as “voluntary,” and admits into evidence, interrogation-induced confessions obtained under conditions entailing stressors sufficient to severely compromise or eliminate the rational decision making capacities and self-regulation abilities necessary to justify such a view. Such decisions reflect, and sometimes explicitly state, assumptions sou…
Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations.
Recent DNA exonerations have shed light on the problem that people sometimes confess to crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, laws concerning the admissibility of confession evidence, core principles of psychology, and forensic studies involving multiple methodologies, this White Paper summarizes what is known about police-induced confessions. In this review, we identify suspect characteristics (e.g., adolescence; intellectual …
The Gatehouses and Mansions: Fifty Years Later
In 1965, Yale Kamisar authored “Equal Justice in the Gatehouses and Mansions of American Criminal Procedure,” an article that came to have an enormous impact on the development of criminal procedure and American norms of criminal justice. Today, that article is a seminal work of scholarship, hailed for “playing a significant part in producing some of the [Warren] Court's most important criminal-procedure decisions” ( White 2003–2004 ), including …
Mandate the Electronic Recording of Police Interrogations
This article argues that mandatory electronic recording of police interrogation is a policy reform for which the overwhelming benefits and minimal costs can no longer be denied. By creating an objective and reviewable record, electronic recording promotes truth-finding in the criminal process, relegates swearing contests to the past, and saves scarce resources at multiple levels of the criminal justice system. Electronic recording of interrogatio…
The Effects of Miranda v. Arizona: "Embedded" in Our National Culture
Miranda v. Arizona required that police inform suspects, prior to custodial interrogation, of their constitutional rights to silence and appointed counsel. It also required that suspects voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently waive these rights in order for any resulting confession to be admitted into evidence at trial. The rationale of Miranda as elaborated by the Supreme Court has evolved from encouraging suspects to resist police interrogat…
The Social and Legal Construction of Repressed Memory
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The Social and Legal Construction of Repressed Memory
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The ethics of deceptive research roles reconsidered: A response to Kai Erikson
Miranda's Revenge: Police Interrogation as a Confidence Game
By requiring that police issue fourfold warnings to silence and appointed counsel prior to any custodial questioning, Miranda v. Arizona (1966) created universalistic criteria for the legal regulation of police interrogations. While Miranda appears to be partly responsible for the dramatic decline in violence in the interrogation room in the 20th century, American police have become skilled at the practice of manipulation and deception during int…
Police Scholarship for the Future: Resisting the Pull of the Policy Audience
The essay argues that the police scholars in the 1980s and 1990s have not done as much theoretically-driven empirical research as previously because they have been primarily concerned with the needs of more specialized policy audiences. As police scholars internalize the interests and agendas of police leaders and policymakers, they become advocates of police reform agendas, and the quality of police scholarship becomes impoverished. The essay re…
Trial and tribulations: Courts, ethnography, and the need for an evidentiary privilege for academic researchers
Police Interrogation and Social Control
This article analyzes contemporary interrogation practices as one example of the changing character of formal control in policing. The article examines how police employ techniques of influence to generate compliance with their requests. The author argues that police power is exercised affirmatively to control behavior during interrogation. Rather than relying on force or the threat of punishment, police commonly use subtle and sophisticated psyc…
The Yale White-Collar Crime Project: A Review and Critique
The Yale White-Collar Crime Project: A Review and Critique
Trial and tribulations: Courts, ethnography, and the need for an evidentiary privilege for academic researchers
Miranda's Revenge: Police Interrogation as a Confidence Game
By requiring that police issue fourfold warnings to silence and appointed counsel prior to any custodial questioning, Miranda v. Arizona (1966) created universalistic criteria for the legal regulation of police interrogations. While Miranda appears to be partly responsible for the dramatic decline in violence in the interrogation room in the 20th century, American police have become skilled at the practice of manipulation and deception during int…
The ethics of deceptive research roles reconsidered: A response to Kai Erikson
Police Scholarship for the Future: Resisting the Pull of the Policy Audience
The essay argues that the police scholars in the 1980s and 1990s have not done as much theoretically-driven empirical research as previously because they have been primarily concerned with the needs of more specialized policy audiences. As police scholars internalize the interests and agendas of police leaders and policymakers, they become advocates of police reform agendas, and the quality of police scholarship becomes impoverished. The essay re…
Police Interrogation and Social Control
This article analyzes contemporary interrogation practices as one example of the changing character of formal control in policing. The article examines how police employ techniques of influence to generate compliance with their requests. The author argues that police power is exercised affirmatively to control behavior during interrogation. Rather than relying on force or the threat of punishment, police commonly use subtle and sophisticated psyc…
The Social and Legal Construction of Repressed Memory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Interrogation-related regulatory decline: Ego depletion, failures of self-regulation, and the decision to confess
As reflected in rulings ranging from Trial Courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, our judiciary commonly views as “voluntary,” and admits into evidence, interrogation-induced confessions obtained under conditions entailing stressors sufficient to severely compromise or eliminate the rational decision making capacities and self-regulation abilities necessary to justify such a view. Such decisions reflect, and sometimes explicitly state, assumptions sou…
The Effects of Miranda v. Arizona: "Embedded" in Our National Culture
Miranda v. Arizona required that police inform suspects, prior to custodial interrogation, of their constitutional rights to silence and appointed counsel. It also required that suspects voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently waive these rights in order for any resulting confession to be admitted into evidence at trial. The rationale of Miranda as elaborated by the Supreme Court has evolved from encouraging suspects to resist police interrogat…
The Yale White-Collar Crime Project: A Review and Critique
The Yale White-Collar Crime Project: A Review and Critique
Police Interrogation and Social Control
This article analyzes contemporary interrogation practices as one example of the changing character of formal control in policing. The article examines how police employ techniques of influence to generate compliance with their requests. The author argues that police power is exercised affirmatively to control behavior during interrogation. Rather than relying on force or the threat of punishment, police commonly use subtle and sophisticated psyc…
Trial and tribulations: Courts, ethnography, and the need for an evidentiary privilege for academic researchers
The ethics of deceptive research roles reconsidered: A response to Kai Erikson
Miranda's Revenge: Police Interrogation as a Confidence Game
By requiring that police issue fourfold warnings to silence and appointed counsel prior to any custodial questioning, Miranda v. Arizona (1966) created universalistic criteria for the legal regulation of police interrogations. While Miranda appears to be partly responsible for the dramatic decline in violence in the interrogation room in the 20th century, American police have become skilled at the practice of manipulation and deception during int…
Police Scholarship for the Future: Resisting the Pull of the Policy Audience
The essay argues that the police scholars in the 1980s and 1990s have not done as much theoretically-driven empirical research as previously because they have been primarily concerned with the needs of more specialized policy audiences. As police scholars internalize the interests and agendas of police leaders and policymakers, they become advocates of police reform agendas, and the quality of police scholarship becomes impoverished. The essay re…
The Social and Legal Construction of Repressed Memory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Social and Legal Construction of Repressed Memory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Effects of Miranda v. Arizona: "Embedded" in Our National Culture
Miranda v. Arizona required that police inform suspects, prior to custodial interrogation, of their constitutional rights to silence and appointed counsel. It also required that suspects voluntarily, knowingly, and intelligently waive these rights in order for any resulting confession to be admitted into evidence at trial. The rationale of Miranda as elaborated by the Supreme Court has evolved from encouraging suspects to resist police interrogat…
Mandate the Electronic Recording of Police Interrogations
This article argues that mandatory electronic recording of police interrogation is a policy reform for which the overwhelming benefits and minimal costs can no longer be denied. By creating an objective and reviewable record, electronic recording promotes truth-finding in the criminal process, relegates swearing contests to the past, and saves scarce resources at multiple levels of the criminal justice system. Electronic recording of interrogatio…
Police-induced confessions: Risk factors and recommendations.
Recent DNA exonerations have shed light on the problem that people sometimes confess to crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, laws concerning the admissibility of confession evidence, core principles of psychology, and forensic studies involving multiple methodologies, this White Paper summarizes what is known about police-induced confessions. In this review, we identify suspect characteristics (e.g., adolescence; intellectual …
The Gatehouses and Mansions: Fifty Years Later
In 1965, Yale Kamisar authored “Equal Justice in the Gatehouses and Mansions of American Criminal Procedure,” an article that came to have an enormous impact on the development of criminal procedure and American norms of criminal justice. Today, that article is a seminal work of scholarship, hailed for “playing a significant part in producing some of the [Warren] Court's most important criminal-procedure decisions” ( White 2003–2004 ), including …
Confessions of GuiltFrom Torture to Miranda and Beyond: From torture to Miranda and beyond
The extreme interrogation tactics permitted after the 9/11 attacks illustrate that the level of fear in society can influence interrogation law. Confessions of Guilt tells the story of how, over the centuries, law moved from indifference about extreme pressure to concern over the slightest pressure, and back again. Five movements from one extreme to the other can be detected in Anglo-American law. The book argues that the movements are largely ca…
Interrogation-related regulatory decline: Ego depletion, failures of self-regulation, and the decision to confess
As reflected in rulings ranging from Trial Courts to the U.S. Supreme Court, our judiciary commonly views as “voluntary,” and admits into evidence, interrogation-induced confessions obtained under conditions entailing stressors sufficient to severely compromise or eliminate the rational decision making capacities and self-regulation abilities necessary to justify such a view. Such decisions reflect, and sometimes explicitly state, assumptions sou…
Police-induced confessions, 2.0: Risk factors and recommendations
Wrongful conviction databases have shed light on the fact that innocent people can be induced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Drawing on police practices, core principles of psychology, and forensic studies involving multiple methodologies, this article updates the original Scientific Review Paper (Kassin et al., 2010) on the causes, consequences, and remedies for police-induced false confessions. First, we describe the situational and …
Exonerations: Causes, Consequences, and Reforms
Exonerations following the wrongful conviction of the innocent are now commonplace and widely recognized. And yet wrongful convictions continue to plague the American criminal justice system. In this article, we discuss and critique the definition and concept of an exoneration and explore the growing influence of the National Registry of Exonerations, an online database and repository of wrongful convictions that has inspired substantial scholars…
How sleep disruption impacts the evidentiary value of statements and confessions: Toward evidence-based standards
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Interrogation (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Criminal justice (5 works)