Jessica R. Klaver

TL;DR: Adolescents aged 15 and younger were more likely than older adolescents to confess and waive their right to counsel, and less likely to report that they would appeal their case or discuss disagreements with their attorneys, and the advice of attorneys, parents, and peers emerged as important predictors of plea decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effects of personality variables, interrogation techniques and the plausibility level of an alleged transgression on the experimental elicitation of false confessions and conclude that individuals who have a tendency to change their responses in the face of negative feedback may be more prone to false confession behavior.

TL;DR: Investigation of the 6-month stability of psychopathic traits in a sample of 83 male adolescent offenders using an augmented protocol for the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version and the self-report Antisocial Process Screening Device suggested moderate to high stability, as indexed by total scores.

TL;DR: Indicators of deception in offenders were somewhat different from those typically observed in non-offender populations and indicate that personality factors may have an impact on nonverbal indicators in criminal justice settings where the detection of deception is of utmost concern.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined psychopathy and indirect measures of deception detection and found that psychopathic traits were associated with lower perceived credibility during deception and ratings of thinking harder while lying.