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Richard A. Leo is a researcher affiliated with the University of San Francisco in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a focus on subfields that include social psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, law, and economics and econometrics.

Their work covers a range of topics, especially in the areas of deception detection and forensic psychology, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, stalking, cyberstalking and harassment, torture, ethics and law, memory processes and influences, criminal law and evidence, and law, economics, and judicial systems.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Richard A. Leo include:

  • Police-induced confessions, 2.0: Risk factors and recommendations, 2025, Law and Human Behavior
  • Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada, 2020, Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • Police-Induced Confessions, 2.0: Risk Factors and Recommendations, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Theorizing Failed Prosecutions, 2022, CrimRxiv
  • The Justice Gap and the Promise of Criminological Research, 2022, Russian Journal of Economics and Law

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Richard A. Leo include:

  • Allison D. Redlich
  • Saul M. Kassin
  • Christian A. Meissner
  • Gisli H. Gudjónsson
  • Hayley M. D. Cleary

Major venues where Richard A. Leo has published research include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Law and Human Behavior
  • Legal and Criminological Psychology
  • CrimRxiv
  • Russian Journal of Economics and Law

Best Publications

  • Police-induced confessions: risk factors and recommendations.

    Saul M. Kassin;Steven A. Drizin;Thomas Grisso;Gisli H. Gudjonsson

  • Police interviewing and interrogation: a self-report survey of police practices and beliefs.

    Saul M. Kassin;Saul M. Kassin;Richard A. Leo;Christian A. Meissner;Kimberly D. Richman

  • Inside the Interrogation Room

    Richard A. Leo

  • The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World

    Steven A. Drizin;Richard A. Leo

  • Consequences of False Confessions: Deprivations of Liberty and Miscarriages of Justice in the Age of Psychological Interrogation

    Richard A. Leo;Richard J. Ofshe

  • Police Interrogation and American Justice

    Richard A Leo

  • Miranda's revenge : Police interrogation as a confidence game

    Richard Angelo Leo

  • Videotaped interrogations and confessions: a simple change in camera perspective alters verdicts in simulated trials.

    G. Daniel Lassiter;Andrew L. Geers;Ian M. Handley;Paul E. Weiland

  • Predicting Erroneous Convictions

    Jon B. Gould;Julia Carrano;Richard A. Leo;Richard A. Leo;Katie Hail-Jares

  • Jurors Believe Interrogation Tactics are Not Likely to Elicit False Confessions: Will Expert Witness Testimony Inform Them Otherwise?

    Iris Blandon-Gitlin;Kathryn Sperry;Richard A. Leo

  • From False Confession to Wrongful Conviction: Seven Psychological Processes:

    Richard A. Leo;Deborah Davis

  • Rethinking the Study of Miscarriages of Justice: Developing a Criminology of Wrongful Conviction

    Richard A. Leo

  • From coercion to deception: the changing nature of police interrogation in America

    Richard A. Leo

  • What do potential jurors know about police interrogation techniques and false confessions

    J.D. Richard A. Leo Ph.D.;B A Brittany Liu

  • False confessions: causes, consequences, and implications.

    Richard A. Leo

  • The Impact of Miranda Revisited

    Richard A. Leo

  • The Social Psychology of Police Interrogation: The Theory and Classification of True and False Confessions

    Richard A. Leo;Richard J. Ofshe

  • ‘Interrogation-Related Regulatory Decline:’ Ego-Depletion, Failures of Self-Regulation and the Decision to Confess

    Deborah Davis;Richard A. Leo

  • The Problem of False Confessions in the Post-DNA World

    Richard A. Leo;Steven A. Drizin

  • The Three Errors: Pathways to False Confession and Wrongful Conviction

    Richard A. Leo;Steven A. Drizin

  • Trial and tribulations: Courts, ethnography, and the need for an evidentiary privilege for academic researchers

    Richard A. Leo

  • The Analysis of Nonverbal Communication: The Dangers of Pseudoscience in Security and Justice Contexts

    Vincent Denault;Pierrich Plusquellec;Louise M. Jupe;Michel St-Yves

  • Police Interviewing and Interrogation: A Self-Report Survey of Police Practices and Beliefs

    Richard A. Leo;Saul M. Kassin;Christian A. Meissner;Christian A. Meissner;Kimberly D. Richman

  • Predicting Erroneous Convictions: A Social Science Approach to Miscarriages of Justice

    Jon Gould;Jon Gould;Julia Carrano;Richard Leo;Joseph Young

  • Adapting to Miranda: Modern Interrogators' Strategies for Dealing with the Obstacles Posed by Miranda

    Richard A. Leo;Welsh S. White

  • The Third Degree and the Origins of Psychological Interrogation in the United States

    Richard A. Leo

  • The Truth About False Confessions and Advocacy Scholarship

    Richard A. Leo;Richard J. Ofshe

  • The Decision to Confess Falsely: Rational Choice and Irrational Action

    Richard A. Leo;Richard J. Ofshe

  • Urgent issues and prospects in reforming interrogation practices in the United States and Canada

    Brent Snook;Todd Barron;Laura Fallon;Saul M. Kassin

  • The Consequences of False Confessions: Deprivations of Liberty and Miscarriages of Justice in the Age of Psychological Interrogation

    Richard A. Leo;Richard J. Ofshe

  • The Miranda Debate: Law, Justice, and Policing

    Richard A. Leo;George C. Thomas

  • The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four

    Tom Wells;Richard Leo

  • Strategies for Preventing False Confessions and Their Consequences

    Deborah Davis;Richard Leo

  • Psychological and cultural aspects of interrogations and false confessions: Using research to inform legal decision-making.

    Richard A. Leo;Mark Costanzo;Netta Shaked-Schroer

  • The Decision to Confess Falsely: Rational Choice and Irrational Action

    Richard J. Ofshe;Richard A. Leo

  • Miranda and the Problem of False Confessions

    Richard A. Leo

  • The Ethics of Deceptive Interrogation

    Richard A. Leo;Jerome H. Skolnick

Frequent Co-Authors

Saul M. Kassin
Saul M. Kassin John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Allison D. Redlich
Allison D. Redlich George Mason University
Christian A. Meissner
Christian A. Meissner Iowa State University
Scott O. Lilienfeld
Scott O. Lilienfeld Emory University
Brian L. Cutler
Brian L. Cutler University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Thomas Grisso
Thomas Grisso University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Gisli H. Gudjonsson
Gisli H. Gudjonsson King's College London
William C. Follette
William C. Follette University of Nevada Reno
Jeffrey T. Hancock
Jeffrey T. Hancock Stanford University
Samantha Mann
Samantha Mann University of Portsmouth

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