False confessions and the relationship with offending behaviour and personality among Danish adolescents

Purpose. The main aim of the study was to examine false confessions to police, parents and teachers and their relationship to personality and self-reported offending. Method. The participants were 715 students in further education in Denmark. Each was asked about false admissions made to teachers an...

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Authors: Steingrimsdottir, Gunnthora (Author) ; Hreinsdottir, Hrafnhildur (Author) ; Gudjonsson, Gisli H. 1947- (Author) ; Sigurdsson, Jon Fridrik (Author) ; Nielsen, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2007
In: Legal and criminological psychology
Year: 2007, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 287-296
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