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

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 ...

Nationally, 28% of all exonerations involve mistaken eyewitness identification. Social science research demonstrates that human memory is highly imperfect and fragile. When people experience a ...

“Eyewitness identification plays a crucial role in the criminal justice system, but it can be influenced by mistakes and biases,” said study author Thomas J. Nyman, a lecturer in forensic ...