Product Description: How did the United States, a nation known for protecting the "right to remain silent" become notorious for condoning and using controversial tactics like water boarding and extraordinary rendition to extract information? What forces determine the laws that define acceptable interrogation techniques and how do they shift so quickly from one extreme to another? In Confessions of Guilt, esteemed scholars George C...read more

Product Description: Does religious confession privilege exist at common law? Most evidence law texts answer no. This analysis shows that most of the cases relied upon for the no religious confession privilege conclusion are not authority for that conclusion...read more

Product Description: The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows, and in print, as well as in the more private spaces of the confessional and the psychoanalyst's office...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)