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Fitness to Be Interviewed

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The custodial interrogation of suspects is an essential component of all systems of criminal investigation. The confessions and other incriminating statements that are obtained during these interrogations have always played an important role in prosecutions and continue to be relied on as evidence of guilt in a substantial number of trials.

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    Margaret M. Stark (Founding Academic Dean)

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Norfolk, G.A., Stark, M.M. (2011). Fitness to Be Interviewed. In: Stark, M. (eds) Clinical Forensic Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-258-8_11

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