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Jun. 1, 2013

Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room

Law professor Barry Feld makes the case that youth who waived their rights were more likely to be convicted of a felony than those who invoked them.

The truth may set you free, but in the criminal justice arena it will bury you. That's the message of Kids, Cops, and Confessions, the product of Barry C. Feld's study of closed case files of juveniles charged with felonies.

The author, a law professor at the University of Minnesota, studied 307 files in four Minnesota counties: two urban (Hennepin and Ramsey in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolis), and two both suburban and rural (Anoka and Dakota). Each file...

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