Mistaken Identification The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law

Name: Mistaken Identification The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law
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ISBN: 9780521445726

ISBN-10: 0521445728

ISBN-13: 9780521445726

Edition: 1995

Authors: Brian L. Cutler, Steven D. Penrod

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Description:

The criminal justice system has devised procedural safeguards to protect defendants from erroneos conviction resulting from mistaken eyewitness identification. This book reviews the empirical research bearing on the adequacy of those safeguards.

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/25/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



The authors


Preface



Introduction



Eyewitness identification errors



Eyewitnesses, expert psychologists, and the law



The admissibility of expert testimony on the psychology of eyewitness identification



Eyewitness experts in the courts of appeal



Sources of identification error: The scientific research



The scientific psychology of eyewitness identifications



Summarizing eyewitness research findings



Factors that influence eyewitness accuracy: Witness factors



Factors that influence eyewitness accuracy: Perpetrator, event, and postevent factors



The effects of suggestive identification procedures on identification accuracy



Is the attorney an effective safeguard against mistaken identification?



Trial counsel, the eyewitness, and the defendant



Attorney sensitivity to factors that influence eyewitness identification accuracy



Is the jury an effective safeguard against mistaken identification?



Lay knowledge about sources of eyewitness unreliability



The ability of jurors to differentiate between accurate and inaccurate eyewitnesses



Jury sensitivity to factors that influence eyewitness reliability



Is the eyewitness expert an effective safeguard against mistaken identification?



Expert testimony and its possible impacts on the jury



Improving juror knowledge, integration, and decision-making



Court-appointed and opposing experts: Better alternatives?



Is the judge an effective safeguard against mistaken identification?



Instructing the jury about problems of mistaken identification



A postscript


References


Name index


Subject index