Jailhouse Informants: Psychological and Legal Perspectives

by Jeffrey S Neuschatz and Jeffrey S. Neuschatz

Offers a new understanding of jailhouse informants and the role they play in wrongful convictions

Jailhouse informants--witnesses who testify in a criminal trial, often in exchange for some incentive--are particularly persuasive to jurors. A jailhouse informant usually claims to have heard the defendant confess to a crime while they were incarcerated together. Research shows that such testimony increases the likelihood of a guilty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479803308
• ISBN13: 9781479803309
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"