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Allison
D. Redlich
Assistant
Professor
Ph.D.
(1999) University
of California, Davis
Specializations:
Police
and military interrogation and false confessions;
Decision-making in plea arrangements,
including false guilty pleas and Alford
pleas; Mental health courts and other
forms of mandated treatment for persons
with mental illness; Actual innocence
and wrongful convictions
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Allison
Redlich joined the faculty of the School
of Criminal Justice in the fall of 2008.
She has two main research foci. The first
concerns interrogation methods (police
and military) and their potential to produce
false confessions. Dr. Redlich is particularly
interested in vulnerable populations identified
as being at increased risk for false confessions
(juveniles and persons with mental impairments)
and attempts to understand the developmental
and clinical mechanisms that may underlie
the risks. In a related line of research,
Dr. Redlich has begun to study false guilty
pleas and Alford pleas. Alford pleas allow
defendants who assert their innocence
to plead guilty rather than risking convictions
(and lengthy sentences) at trial.
Dr.
Redlich's second research focus concerns
mental health courts (MHCs). MHCs are
criminal courts for offenders with mental
illness that divert eligible persons from
the criminal justice system (being charged,
being sent to jail or prison) into community
treatment. Dr. Redlich is currently studying
whether MHC clients make knowing, intelligent,
and voluntary enrollment decisions, and
whether informed decision-making at the
outset predicts future MHC success. In
addition, Dr. Redlich with Dr. Henry J.
Steadman, is conducting a four-site, longitudinal
study on the effectiveness of MHCs.
Dr.
Redlich has received funding from the
National Science Foundation, NARSAD: The
Mental Health Research Association, and
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation to address these lines of research.
She is well published in both areas and
has offered expert testimony in court.
Prior to joining the faculty at UAlbany,
Dr. Redlich was a Senior Research Associate
at Policy Research Associates and a Research
Scientist at the Stanford University School
of Medicine.
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