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Interpsy: Psychology, Criminal Interrogation and the Impact of Knowledge, 1880-1940

Interpsy: Psychology, Criminal Interrogation and the Impact of Knowledge, 1880-1940

First findings

Still from an interrogation scene in I Wake Up Screaming (1941)

Exploring interrogations & psychology in the German-speaking world

Almost two months into the project, I’ve mainly been exploring German-language publications on criminal interrogation and forensic psychology from around 1900. Here I’ll try to formulate some of my initial findings about the role of psychology in criminal interrogation and the relationship between jurists and psychologists. Most strikingly: Germans and Austrians wrote a lot about…

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