When police roll up on a crime scene, the first people they seek out are eyewitnesses to explain what, and who, they saw. But ...

Daedalus, Vol. 147, No. 4, Science & The Legal System (Fall 2018), pp. 90-98 (9 pages) Inaccurate eyewitness testimony is a leading cause of wrongful convictions. As early as 1967, the U.S. Supreme ...

Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new law enforcement training protocols, standardized ...

Nationally, 28% of all exonerations involve mistaken eyewitness identification. Social science research demonstrates ... There were, however, clear factual errors in his confession. When police ...

“Eyewitness identification plays a crucial role in ... while unbiased instructions reduce errors but may miss the guilty person. Conducted in one of the most realistic hostage simulations ...