Allison D. Redlich is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason University where she is also Associate Chair. She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Davis in 1999. She is past President of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS) of the American Psychological Association (APA) and a Fellow of the APA (and its Division on Developmental Psychology), the AP-LS, the Association of Psychological Science, and the Academy of Experimental Criminology. Professor Redlich is an internationally recognized expert on police interrogations and false confessions, particularly with vulnerable populations such as persons with mental illness and juveniles. She also has an active program of research on true and false guilty pleas, and has conducted research on mental health courts and other forms of criminal justice diversion. She publishes extensively and is the author/editor of six books. Professor Redlich received the 2025 Beck Family Presidential Medal for Excellence in Faculty Research and two national teaching and mentoring awards (AP-LS and ASC), for which she is most proud.