Police interrogation of juveniles: an empirical study of policy and practice. From: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Northwestern University, School of Law. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

The Supreme Court does not require any special procedural safeguards when police interrogate youths and use the adult standard--"knowing, intelligent, and voluntary under the totality of the circumstances"--to gauge the validity of juveniles' waivers of Miranda rights. Developmental psychologists have studied adolescents' capacity to exercise Miranda rights, questioned whether juveniles possess the cognitive ability and adjudicative competence necessary to exercise legal rights, and contended that immaturity and vulnerability make juveniles uniquely susceptible to police interrogation ...

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