Abstract
Woody examines the history of deception during police interrogations in the United States and then reviews current deceptive practices, ongoing changes in accepted deceptive interrogation tactics, and likely future directions. He presents the history of civilian policing and ties this history directly to the practices of police interrogation in the early twentieth century, which relied heavily on physical coercion. He then examines the impact of media attention, legal investigations, and court decisions that led to the replacement of physical coercion with deceptive tactics. The use of deception has been foundational for police interrogators throughout the mid- and late twentieth century. He concludes by presenting ongoing changes to the use of deception in police interrogation, particularly due to challenges by journalists, scholars, police reformers, and recent court cases, and a look toward the future.
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Woody, W.D. (2019). The History, Present, and Future of Police Deception During Interrogation. In: Docan-Morgan, T. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Deceptive Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96334-1_38
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