Solitary confinement Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Extracting confessions=== Solitary confinement is often used to induce a confession from a prisoner in [[pre-trial detention]].<ref name=pss>{{cite journal |last1=Smith |first1=Peter Scharff |title=The Effects of Solitary Confinement on Prison Inmates: A Brief History and Review of the Literature |journal=Crime and Justice |date=January 2006 |volume=34 |issue=1 |pages=441β528 |doi=10.1086/500626|s2cid=144809478 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shalev |first1=Sharon |title=Solitary Confinement: The View from Europe |journal=Canadian Journal of Human Rights |date=2015 |volume=4 |pages=143 |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/canajo4&div=12&id=&page=}}</ref> This practice has been more common in Denmark and other Scandinavian countries in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.<ref name=pss/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page