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Diagnosing Eyewitness Accuracy [PDF]
, 2015 Eyewitnesses frequently mistake innocent people for the perpetrator of an observed crime. Such misidentifications have led to the wrongful convictions of many people. Despite this, no reliable method yet exists to determine eyewitness accuracy.
Russ, Andrew
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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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Epilepsia, EarlyView.Abstract Objective Different causes of transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) carry distinct risks and require different management. Early accurate diagnosis is essential to guide counseling, investigation, and referral. In routine practice, frontline clinicians and specialists often rely on eyewitness accounts, yet the reliability of witness testimony
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Document: Hoyerswerda | Frontex
Journal of Anthropological Films, 2019 Four migrants from Mozambique provide eyewitness testimony about the racially motivated attacks that took place in Hoyerswerda, Saxony, in 1991. Their report is read to accompany archive shots, obtained directly in the streets of German city, which are ...
Thomas Kaske
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What people believe about how memory works: a representative survey of the U.S. population. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Incorrect beliefs about the properties of memory have broad implications: the media conflate normal forgetting and inadvertent memory distortion with intentional deceit, juries issue verdicts based on flawed intuitions about the accuracy and confidence ...
Daniel J Simons, Christopher F Chabris
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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The Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony [PDF]
, 2014 As perhaps the single most effective method of proving the elements of a crime, eyewitness testimony has been vital to the trial process for centuries.
Roberts, Nathan
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Factual Reasoning in the Evaluation Of Eyewitness Testimony - Part One
EudaimoniaThe aim of this paper is to analyse the process of factual reasoning in the evaluation of eyewitness testimony from the standpoint of the general theory of law and the theory of evidential reasoning, as well as through the lens of an empirical legal ...
Lazar Brajovic
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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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