Published Oct 10, 2022
Did I Really Do That?
Shankar Vedantam dives into the disturbing world of false confessions with psychologist Saul Kassin, unraveling how coercive interrogation tactics and authority figures can lead innocents to admit to crimes they never committed, through analysis of landmark cases like the Central Park jogger.
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