Duped: Why Innocent People Confess – and Why We Believe Their Confessions

“As you read this blurb, you know you would never confess to a crime you didn’t commit. Read this compelling study and you’ll change your mind. Dr. Kassin lays bare the dirty tricks used by police to make innocents confess. And he describes, convincingly, what should be done to stop them.”

- John Grisham, #1 New York Times-bestselling author

“Duped is an instant classic. Kassin brings a lifetime of experience - in the classroom, in the laboratory, and in the courtroom as an expert in actual cases - to the subject of police-induced false confessions. Duped will be one of the first books off the shelf for those looking for answers to two eternal questions: ‘Why would anyone falsely confess and ‘Why are we so inclined to believe false confessions?’”

- Steven A. Drizin, co-director of Northwestern University’s Center on Wrongful Convictions

“No one in the world knows more about the science behind false confessions than Saul Kassin - Duped should be required reading for every police investigator in the country.”

- John F. Hollway, executive director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice

“The scariest moment of my life was in the interrogation room, where I was coerced into signing false statements that implicated me in the murder of my friend. For years, I thought that no one would understand, then Saul Kassin showed me his research. What happened to me that night has happened to so many others. And it could happen to you. Duped is not only necessary for criminal justice reform, it is a stunning view into the fragility of the human mind.”

- Amanda Knox, exoneree, activist, and author of Waiting to Be Heard

“Upon reading Kassin’s book it is jarringly easy to understand how police and prosecutors obtain false confessions and use them to gain wrongful convictions. In almost all cases, a confession, no matter what other evidence exists or not, results in a conviction. Duped breaks down the myths that most of us ‘would never confess to a crime I did not commit.’ Under the right circumstances, most of us would do just that.”

- Lonnie Soury, co-founder, Families and Friends of the Wrongfully Convicted; founder of Falseconfessions.org