@article{ref1,
title="What makes sex offenders confess? An exploratory study",
journal="Journal of child sexual abuse",
year="2002",
author="Faller, Kathleen Coulborn and Birdsall, W. C. and Henry, Judith and Vandervort, F. and Silverschanz, P.",
volume="10",
number="4",
pages="31-49",
abstract="This study examines correlates of offender confession in criminal sexual conduct cases involving children. The cases consist of all closed court files (N=318), spanning the last 10 years from a single jurisdiction. This jurisdiction has a community-wide protocol for handling child sexual abuse cases, a high rate of charging (69%), a high rate of confession (64%), and high rates of pleas to sex crimes (77%). To determine what factors were associated with suspect confession before adjudication, we examined characteristics of the suspect, the child, the abuse, and the system using bi-variate and multi-variate analysis. The following four variables are associated with suspect confession: (1) having the state police conducting the law enforcement part of the investigation, (2) more serious abuse, (3) younger age of the suspect, and (4) having a court appointed (as opposed to a retained) attorney.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1053-8712",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}