Additional Example Publications
Guilty Pleas
Bettens, T., Redlich, A. D., & Helm, R. (in press) Legal procedures: Protecting children or exacerbating vulnerabilities? L. Malloy, R. Helm, & T. Zottoli (Eds.) Confessions and guilty pleas of youth: Developmental science and practical implications.
Petersen, K., Johnson, B.D., Galvin, M., & Redlich, A.D. (accepted). The hidden discount: Examining racial disparity in the use of suspended sentences. Criminology.
Redlich, A.D. (accepted). False guilty pleas: The most prevalent form of wrongful convictions. In. S. Kassin (Ed.), Champions of innocence: Inside the fight against wrongful convictions. Prometheus Press.
Redlich, A.D., Becker, L. Dervan, L.E., Donnelly, M.P., Frazier, A., Gallen, M., Gazal Ayal, O., Helm, R.K., Johnson, B.D., MacLean, E., Reiner, N.L., Wilford, M.M., & Zottoli, T.M. (2025). Urgent issues and prospects in guilty plea research and practice. Legal and Criminological Psychology.
Bettens, T., & Redlich, A. D. (2024). The effects of confessions on misconduct and guilty pleas in exonerations: Implications for discovery policies. Criminology & Public Policy, 23(1), 179-199.
DiFava, R. J., Bettens, T., Wilford, M. M., & Redlich, A. D. (2024). Confession evidence results in more true and false guilty pleas than eyewitness evidence. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 20, 1253-1267.
Catlin, M., Luna, S., & Redlich, A.D. (2024). Plea bargaining: Understanding the decision-making processes of plea negotiation. In M. Miller, L. Yelderman, M. Huss, & J. Cantone (Eds.), Cambridge handbook of the psychology of legal decision- making. Cambridge University Press.
Redlich, A.D., Wilford, M., Berger, N., & Dipano, M. (2023). Commonalities in false guilty plea cases. Psychology. Crime, and Law.
Henderson, K., Fountain, E., Redlich, A.D., & Cantone, J. (2022). Judicial involvement in plea bargaining. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 28, 356-373.
Petersen, K., Redlich, A. D., & Wilson, D. B. (2022). Discount for who? Comparing the effects of evidence and demographic characteristics on plea discounts. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 18, 321-342.
Redlich, A. D., Zottoli, T., Dezember, A., Schneider, R., Catlin, M., & Shammi, S. (2022). Emerging issues in the psycho-legal study of guilty pleas. In D. DeMatteo & K. Scherr (Eds.), The oxford handbook of psychology and law. Oxford University Press.
Henderson, K., Fountain, E., Redlich, A. D., & Cantone, J. (2021). Judicial involvement in plea bargaining. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
Petersen, K., Redlich, A.D., & Norris, R. (2021). Diverging from the shadows: Explaining individual deviation from plea bargaining in the “Shadow of Trial.” Journal of Experimental Criminology.
Interrogations and Confessions
Kelly, C.J. & Redlich, A.D. (in press). The changing landscape of police interrogation. Annual Review of Criminology.
Redlich, A.D. (in press). False confessions in police interviews: Examples, causes, effects, and prevention. In R. Alleweldt & S. Schade (Eds.), The police, investigative interviewing and human rights: Legal, psychological, and practical aspects.
Kassin, S., Cleary, H.M., Gudjonsson, G., Leo, R., Meissner, C.A., Redlich, A.D., & Scherr, K. (2025). Police induced confessions, 2.0: Risk factors and recommendations. Law and Human Behavior, 49, 7-53.
Catlin, M., Wilson, D. B., Redlich, A. D., Bettens, T., & Meissner, C. A. (2025). Information-gathering approaches produce more reliable confessions compared with accusatorial approaches. Applied Police Briefings, 1(1), 10-12.
Bettens, T., & Cleary, H. D. (2024). Defense attorney perspectives about juvenile interrogations: SROs, parents, and the adolescent defendant. Psychology, Crime & Law.
Bettens, T., Cleary, H. D., & Bull, R. (2024). Humane interrogation strategies are associated with confessions, cooperation, and disclosure: Evidence from a field study of U.S. suspects. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 51(6), 949-969.
Bettens, T., & Warren, A. R. (2023). Juveniles and adults differ in their beliefs about cues to deception and strategies during a hypothetical police interview. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 96-110.
Alceste, F., Luke, T., Redlich, A.D., Amrom, A., Hellgren, J., & Kassin, S.M. (2021). The psychology of confessions: A comparison of expert and lay opinions. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35.
Snook, B., Fallon, L., Barron, W. T., Kassin, S., Kleinman, S., Leo, R.A., Meissner, C., Morello, L., Nirider, L., Redlich, & Trainer, J.L. (2021). Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada. Legal and Criminological Psychology, 26, 1-24.
Redlich, A.D., Nirider, L., & Shteynberg, R. (2020). Pragmatic implication in the interrogation room: A comparison of juveniles
and adults. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 16, 555-564.
Rezmer, B., Trager, L., Catlin, M., & Poole, D. A. (2020). Pause for effect: A 10-Second interview wait time give children time to respond to open-ended prompts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 194, 104824.
Wrongful Convictions and Exonerees
Bettens, T., Warren, A., R., & Pica, E. (2024). Stigma or support? How gender, race, and intersectionality impact perceptions of exonerees. Women & Criminal Justice. Advanced online publication.
Redlich, A.D., Acker, J., Bonventre, C., & Norris, R. (2023). Investigating overlooked issues in wrongful convictions. National Institute of Justice Special Report on Wrongful Convictions.
Catlin, M., & Redlich, A. D. (2023). Redefining "years lost": The impact of wrongful conviction on lifespan. Wrongful Conviction Law Review, 4, 1-15.
Berube, R., Wilford, M., Redlich, A.D., & Wang, Y. (2023). Identifying patterns across the six canonical factors underlying wrongful convictions. Wrongful Conviction Law Review, 3, 166-195.
Faison, L., Smalarz, L., Madon, S. & Clow, K. (2023). The stigma of wrongful conviction differs for White and Black exonerees. Law and Human Behavior, 47, 137–152.
Faison, L., & Smalarz, L. (2020). Perceptions of exonerees: A review of the psychological science. Albany Law Review, 83, 1021- 1058.
Kieckhaefer, J. M., & Luna, S. (2022). Can you put a price on 14 years of life? Examining predictors of monetary compensation for exonerees. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
Norris, R. J., Acker, J.A., Bonventre, C., & Redlich, A.D. (2020). Thirty years of innocence: Wrongful convictions and exonerations in the United States, 1989-2018. The Wrongful Conviction Law Review, 1, 2-58.
Scherr, K., Redlich, A.D., & Kassin, S.M. (2020). Cumulative disadvantage: The compounding effect of innocents’ decision- making from interrogations to the courtroom. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 353-383.
Other Recent Publications
Quas, J.A., Luna, S., Wilson, D.B., & Redlich, A.D. (2024). Human Trafficking and the Passage of the 2000 TVPA: A Comparative Analysis of Prosecution of Trafficking, Child Pornography, and Sexual Abuse Cases. Journal of Human Trafficking.
Catlin, M., Pigott, D., Scherr, K. C., & Vallano, J. P. (2023). Schematic expectations influence mock jurors’ sexual violence case fact recognition. Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37, 558-568.
Catlin, M., & Scherr, K. C. (2021). The deleterious effect of victimization on just-world beliefs. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37, NP16013–NP16036.
Luna, S. & Redlich, A.D. (2020). A national survey of Veterans Treatment Court actors. Criminal Justice Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-019-09403-z