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Perceived realism and the CSI-effect

open access: yesCogent Social Sciences, 2017
Anecdotal claims from legal professionals suggest that jurors are increasingly expecting DNA evidence in criminal trials, due to the popularity of crime-drama television programs such as Crime Scene Investigation (CSI). This study extends research on the
Logan A. Ewanation   +3 more
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Face Recognition in Forensic Psychology: A Literature Review on Eyewitness Testimony Research [PDF]

open access: yesPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
Eyewitnesses 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
doaj   +1 more source

Pre-feedback eyewitness statements: proposed safeguard against feedback effects on evaluations of eyewitness testimony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Mistaken but highly confident eyewitness testimony has been used to convict innocent people in more than 220 criminal cases in the United States. Research has shown that confirming post-identification feedback (e.g., "Good job, you identified the suspect"
Smalarz, Laura
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Consequences of False Memories in Eyewitness Testimony: A Review and Implications for Chinese Legal Practice

open access: yesPsychological Research on Urban Society, 2018
False memories can result in severe legal consequences including the imprisonment of innocent people. False memory in eyewitnesses is the largest factor contributing to miscarriages of justice in the United States.
Jianqin Wang   +5 more
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Eyewitness identification : improving police lineups for suspects with distinctive features [PDF]

open access: yes
Eyewitnesses‘ descriptions of suspects often refer to distinctive facial features, such as tattoos or scars, and the police have to decide how best to create fair lineups in these circumstances.
Zarkadi, Theodora
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Expert Testimony Regarding Eyewitness Identification [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Increasingly, psychologists are giving expert testimony in court on the accu­ racy of eyewitness identification (Kassin, Tubb, Hosch, & Memon, 2001). Eyewitness experts typically are cognitive or social psychologists who have published research articles ...
Cutler, Brian, Wells, Gary
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Stability of autobiographical memory in young people with intellectual disabilities

open access: yesAnuario de Psicología Jurídica, 2017
The present study aimed to analyze the stability of the memory of a stressful event (medical examination within a hospital setting) over time in young people (age range 12 to 21, Mage = 15.11 years old, SD = 3.047) with mild or moderate intellectual ...
Claudia Morales   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

In Eyes, We Trust: The Changing Landscape of Eyewitness Testimony [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Since the very advent of law enforcement, eyewitness testimony has played a pivotal role in identifying, arresting, and convicting suspects. Reliant heavily on the accuracy of human memory, nothing seems to carry more weight with the judiciary than the ...
Singh, Manveen
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Predicting Accuracy in Eyewitness Testimonies With Memory Retrieval Effort and Confidence

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Evaluating eyewitness testimonies has proven a difficult task. Recent research, however, suggests that incorrect memories are more effortful to retrieve than correct memories, and confidence in a memory is based on retrieval effort. We aimed to replicate
Philip U. Gustafsson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Marriage among Muslims in rural areas in the second half of 19th century (based on materials of Krasnaya Kadka village metric books from the funds of the State Archive of the Republic of Tatarstan and the National Archive of the Republic of Bashkortostan)

open access: yesИсторическая этнология, 2018
This article is devoted to some aspects of marriage among Muslims of the Volga-Ural region in the late 19th – early 21st centuries. Traditionally, marriage has been studied based on the materials of ethnographic research, eyewitness testimony, and ...
Ramil A. Gaptrakhimov   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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