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Additional Reading
Richard A. Bauman, Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome (1996); Peter Brooks, Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature (2000); Richard C. Cortner, A “Scottsboro” Case in Mississippi: The Supreme Court and Brown v. Mississippi (1986); Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufeld, and Barry Scheck, Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted, (2000); Joseph D. Grano, Confessions, Truth, and the Law (1993); John Owen Haley, Authority Without Power: Law and the Japanese Paradox (1991); Richard A. Leo and George C. Thomas III, The Miranda Debate: Law, Justice, and Policing (1998); Leonard W. Levy, Origins of the Fifth Amendment: The Right Against Self-incrimination (1968, reprinted 1986); Robert Lingat, The Classical Law of India, trans. from French with additions by J. Duncan M. Derrett (1998); Douglas M. MacDowell, The Law in Classical Athens (1978); Michael L. Radelet, Hugo Adam Bedau, and Constance E. Putnam, In Spite of Innocence: Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases (1992); Lawrence S. Wrightsman, and Saul M. Kassin, Confessions in the Courtroom (1993).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Article title updated for style. | Oct 31, 2026 | ||
| Link added. | May 10, 2023 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Apr 07, 2014 | ||
| Article thoroughly revised. | Apr 07, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Society - Confession. | Oct 11, 2011 | ||
| Added new Web site: North Carolina Wesleyan College - Justice Studies Department - CONFESSIONS. | Sep 25, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - People - Confession. | Sep 25, 2007 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |