Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Credibility and Testimonial Injustice Credibility Hearer-Excess Testimonial Injustice Distributive Testimonial Injustice Normative Testimonial Injustice Wide Norm of Credibility Moving Beyond the Standard Conception of Testimonial Injustice False Confessions and Agential Testimonial Injustice False Confessions Testimonial Injustice Extracted Testimony Credibility Excess Agential Testimonial Injustice Why? Conclusion Eyewitness Testimony and Epistemic Agency Eyewitness Testimony Manipulation, Deception, and Coercion Credibility Excess Other Forms of Extraction Moving Forward Conclusion Plea Deals and Systemic Testimonial Injustice Coercion Plea Deals Epistemic Deficits Agential Testimonial Injustice Conclusion Race, Gender, and the Multi-Directional Model of Credibility Assessments The Multi-Directional Model Race Gender Other Forms of Extraction: Recantations by Victims in Domestic Violence Cases Conclusion Admissions of Guilt and Expressions of Remorse: Sentencing and Parole Hearings Sentencing Hearings Parole Hearings Conclusion Conclusion References Index

With the combination of incisive analysis, straightforward prose, and fierce passion that has become her trademark, Jennifer Lackey argues that the American criminal justice machine uses coerced speech to systematically undermine the epistemic agency of defendants-and by extension, the pursuit of truth and the very nature of law itself. This is a troubling and deeply important work by one of the most important epistemologists now working.

Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Credibility and Testimonial Injustice Credibility Hearer-Excess Testimonial Injustice Distributive Testimonial Injustice Normative Testimonial Injustice Wide Norm of Credibility Moving Beyond the Standard Conception of Testimonial Injustice False Confessions and Agential Testimonial Injustice False Confessions Testimonial Injustice Extracted Testimony Credibility Excess Agential Testimonial Injustice Why? Conclusion Eyewitness Testimony and Epistemic Agency Eyewitness Testimony Manipulation, Deception, and Coercion Credibility Excess Other Forms of Extraction Moving Forward Conclusion Plea Deals and Systemic Testimonial Injustice Coercion Plea Deals Epistemic Deficits Agential Testimonial Injustice Conclusion Race, Gender, and the Multi-Directional Model of Credibility Assessments The Multi-Directional Model Race Gender Other Forms of Extraction: Recantations by Victims in Domestic Violence Cases Conclusion Admissions of Guilt and Expressions of Remorse: Sentencing and Parole Hearings Sentencing Hearings Parole Hearings Conclusion Conclusion References Index

With the combination of incisive analysis, straightforward prose, and fierce passion that has become her trademark, Jennifer Lackey argues that the American criminal justice machine uses coerced speech to systematically undermine the epistemic agency of defendants-and by extension, the pursuit of truth and the very nature of law itself. This is a troubling and deeply important work by one of the most important epistemologists now working.

Jennifer Lackey is the Founding Director of the Northwestern Prison Education Program. Lackey is the winner of the Dr. Martin R. Lebowitz and Eve Lewellis Lebowitz Prize for Philosophical Achievement and Contribution, and she has received grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Credibility and Testimonial Injustice Credibility Hearer-Excess Testimonial Injustice Distributive Testimonial Injustice Normative Testimonial Injustice Wide Norm of Credibility Moving Beyond the Standard Conception of Testimonial Injustice False Confessions and Agential Testimonial Injustice False Confessions Testimonial Injustice Extracted Testimony Credibility Excess Agential Testimonial Injustice Why? Conclusion Eyewitness Testimony and Epistemic Agency Eyewitness Testimony Manipulation, Deception, and Coercion Credibility Excess Other Forms of Extraction Moving Forward Conclusion Plea Deals and Systemic Testimonial Injustice Coercion Plea Deals Epistemic Deficits Agential Testimonial Injustice Conclusion Race, Gender, and the Multi-Directional Model of Credibility Assessments The Multi-Directional Model Race Gender Other Forms of Extraction: Recantations by Victims in Domestic Violence Cases Conclusion Admissions of Guilt and Expressions of Remorse: Sentencing and Parole Hearings Sentencing Hearings Parole Hearings Conclusion Conclusion References Index

With the combination of incisive analysis, straightforward prose, and fierce passion that has become her trademark, Jennifer Lackey argues that the American criminal justice machine uses coerced speech to systematically undermine the epistemic agency of defendants-and by extension, the pursuit of truth and the very nature of law itself. This is a troubling and deeply important work by one of the most important epistemologists now working.