For that work, he won lifetime contribution awards from the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group (iiiRG), the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS), and the European Association of Psychology and the Law (EAPL).
He has appeared as a guest analyst on several major TV networks and syndicated news shows and in a number of podcasts - including Shankar Vedantam's Hidden Brain, Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert, and Erin Moriarty's My Life of Crime - and documentaries such as the 2012 film by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon titled The Central Park Five.
[7] To raise public awareness, Kassin has also written several newspaper editorials[8][9][10][11][12] and an article on the false confessions that surrounded the infamous 1964 killing of Kitty Genovese.
[19][20] Kassin created the first laboratory research methods (the most notable being the computer crash experiment)[21] used in forensic psychology to study the problems with certain types of police interrogation techniques and why innocent people confess.
Along with fellow experts Steven Drizin, Thomas Grisso, Gisli Gudjonsson, Richard Leo, and Allison Redlich, he wrote a 2010 AP-LS White Paper called "Police-Induced Confessions: Risk Factors and Recommendations.
"[22] Over the years, Kassin has published many other empirical articles on the subject of confessions and has introduced such terms as positive coercion bias,[23] minimization and maximization,[24] guilt-presumptive interrogation,[25] the phenomenology of innocence,[26][27] and the forensic confirmation bias[28] In recent articles, he explains why judges, juries, and others tend to believe false confessions even when contradicted eyewitnesses, alibis, DNA, and other evidence.
[37] Combining real cases and psychological research, this book describes how this unimaginable aspect of human behavior happens and then how false confessions corrupt forensics and other evidence, forces guilty pleas, blinds judges and juries, and stigmatizes defendants their entire lives—even after they are exonerated.