An Examination of the Causes and Solutions to Eyewitness Error
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2014 Eyewitness error is one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions. In fact, the American Psychological Association estimates that one in three eyewitnesses make an erroneous identification.
Richard Allen Wise +3 more
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Judicial Understanding of the Reliability of Eyewitness Evidence: A Tale of Two Cases
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016 One of the most significant consequences of the use of post-conviction DNA testing in the criminal justice system has been the growing recognition that eyewitness identification testimony is simply not as reliable as it was previously considered to be ...
Lirieka Meintjes-van der Walt
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Improving face identification of mask-wearing individuals
Cognitive Research, 2022 Research has consistently shown that concealing facial features can hinder subsequent identification. The widespread adoption of face masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the critical and urgent need to discover techniques to improve ...
Krista D. Manley +2 more
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The face recall and face recognition: Description accuracy does not indicate eyewitness identification accuracy [PDF]
NBP: Nauka, bezbednost, policijaEyewitness testimonies are frequently considered crucial in criminal investigations. The impact of the initial description provided by an eyewitness on subsequent identification accuracy remains an understudied area.
Fazlić Adnan, Deljkić Irma
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The effects of lineup size on the processes underlying eyewitness decisions
Scientific Reports, 2023 Here we apply the two-high threshold eyewitness identification model to identify the effects of lineup size on the detection-based and non-detection-based processes underlying eyewitness decisions.
Nicola Marie Menne +3 more
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Choosing lineup order vs knowing which lineup corresponds to which suspect: accuracy implications in multiple perpetrator identification [PDF]
Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, 2021 Although many crimes involve multiple perpetrators, most eyewitness studies examine identification accuracy within the context of a single perpetrator.
Kristjan Kask
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Face Recognition in Forensic Psychology: A Literature Review on Eyewitness Testimony Research [PDF]
Psicologia: Teoria e PesquisaEyewitnesses play a crucial role in the criminal justice system, providing crucial information during investigations and potentially assisting in the identification of suspects.
Renan Benigno Saraiva
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Perpetrator pose reinstatement during a lineup test increases discrimination accuracy
Scientific Reports, 2021 We examined how encoding view influences the information that is stored in and retrieved from memory during an eyewitness identification task. Participants watched a mock crime and we varied the angle from which they viewed the perpetrator. In Experiment
Melissa F. Colloff +8 more
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Eyewitness testimony: probative value in criminal justice system
Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2019 This article reveals the problems and issues related to reliability of eyewitness testimony in the criminal justice system. The article also discusses various internal and external factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness identification, such as ...
Biswa Prakash Nayak, Himanshu Khajuria
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US line-ups outperform UK line-ups [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 In the USA and the UK, many thousands of police suspects are identified by eyewitnesses every year. Unfortunately, many of those suspects are innocent, which becomes evident when they are exonerated by DNA testing, often after having been imprisoned for ...
Travis M. Seale-Carlisle, Laura Mickes
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