Making Police Lineups More Effective: Can We Improve the Eyewitness Identification Process?Steblay, Nancy
Since 1992, 194 people have been exonerated on the basis of DNA evidence, and some 75 percent of the convictions involved at least one faulty eyewitness identification, according to the Innocence Project, which works to clear those who are falsely imprisoned. A separate study published by the ...
The current experiment provides a nuanced analysis of identification performance of police and laypeople at different levels of confidence. Laypeople and advanced police trainees (N=192) viewed portrait, profile, and body‐only lineups for central and peripheral targets. Police trainees displayed higher ...
More specifically, this research proposes a novel way to address police lineups for eyewitness identification purposes. Traditional methods present suspects sequentially (SEQ method) one by one using a Yes-No memory recognition approach rooted in psychology. The proposed method is a paradigm shift ...
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