About This Work

From the Introduction by Ira Belkin:

"…Every country’s criminal justice system has struggled with the challenge of how to regulate police interrogation to eliminate police torture, coercion and false confessions, on the one hand, while still giving police sufficient leeway to investigate criminal offenses, on the other. As we demonstrate in the body of this volume, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the People’s Republic of China, have all experienced scandals involving police torture and all have taken some steps to reform how police conduct interrogations…Taken together, the seven chapters presented in this book reflect the most current thinking…on how to achieve ethical and effective police interrogation, respecting the fundamental dignity of the individuals under suspicion, while at the same time, enhancing the truth - seeking function of interrogation…If the many lessons of these chapters can be summed up in a few words it would be that there must be a holistic approach to reform…”

Compiled by:

Ira Belkin, Executive Director, U.S.-Asia Law Institute
Chao Liu, Research Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute
Amy Gao, Research Scholar, U.S.-Asia Law Institute

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