Juveniles’ Waiver of Rights

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Thomas Grisso

   Pages 1-10

3. The Role of Interrogation in Juvenile Justice

   • Thomas Grisso

   Pages 11-39

4. From Legal Standard to Psychological Measurement

   • Thomas Grisso

   Pages 41-58

5. Juveniles’ Comprehension of Miranda Warnings

   • Thomas Grisso

   Pages 59-93

6. Adults’ Miranda Comprehension

   • Thomas Grisso

   Pages 95-107

7. Perceptions of the Function of Rights

   • Thomas Grisso

   Pages 109-130

8. Juveniles’ Reasoning about the Waiver Decision

   • Thomas Grisso

   Pages 131-160

9. The Presence of Parents at Juveniles’ Interrogations

   • Thomas Grisso

   Pages 161-190

10. Summary and Policy Recommendations

    • Thomas Grisso

    Pages 191-206

11. Epilogue

    • Thomas Grisso

    Pages 207-210

12. Back Matter

    Pages 211-295

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The research studies reported in this book were completed between June, 1976 and November, 1979, with a USPHS research grant (MH- 27849) from the Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency, National Institute of Mental Health. Every phase of the project was an exercise in combining the research methods of psychology with the concerns of law, legal systems, and legal process. Research psychologists will be especially interested in our efforts to apply psychological constructs and research methods to a difficult decision-making problem in law. This report describes in some detail the project's development of experimental measures of psychological condi­ tions related to legal standards and demonstrates the ways in which research design was influenced by concerns of law and the juvenile justice system. Lawyers, judges, and youth advocate groups have already ex­ pressed considerable interest in the implications of the project's results for the formation and modification of juvenile law and procedure. In each chapter, I have attempted to describe carefully the ways in which the empirical research results are applicable to these concerns, and I have tried to specify the limits which must be acknowledged in inter­ preting the results for application in the legal process.

• Crime
• Delinquency
• justice
• law
• research

• St. Louis University, St. Louis, USA

  Thomas Grisso

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