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Title Handbook of eyewitness psychology. Vol. 2, Memory for people / edited by Rod C.L. Lindsay [and others].

Publication Info. New York : Psychology Press : Routledge, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Originally published in 2007 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Finding Suspects. 1. Person Descriptions as Eyewitness Evidence -- 2. Mug Books: More Than Just Large Photospreads -- 3. Facial Composites: Forensic Utility and Psychological Research -- Part II: Identifying Suspects: System Variables. 4. Remembering Faces -- 5. The Psychology of Speaker Identification and Earwitness Memory -- 6. Show-up Identifications: Suggestive Technique or Reliable Method? -- 7. Lineup Construction and Lineup Fairness -- 8. Radical Alternatives to Traditional Lineups -- 9. A Role for Theory in Eyewitness Identification Research -- 10. Applied Lineup Theory -- Part III: Identifying Suspects: Estimator Variables. 11. The Influence of Race on Eyewitness Memory -- 12. Person Description and Identification by Child Witnesses -- 13. Eyewitness Memory in Young and Older Eyewitnesses -- 14. Remembering and Identifying Menacing Perpetrators: Exposure to Violence and the Weapon Focus Effect -- 15. The Effects of Delay on Eyewitness Identification Accuracy: Should We Be Concerned? -- 16. Eyewitness Confidence and the Confidence-accuracy Relationship in Memory for People -- 17. Distinguishing Accurate Identifications from Erroneous Ones: Post-dictive Indicators of Eyewitness Accuracy -- Part IV: Belief of Eyewitness Identification. 18. Has Eyewitness Research Penetrated the American Legal System? A Synthesis of Case History, Juror Knowledge, and Expert Testimony -- 19. Belief of Eyewitness Identification Evidence -- Part V: Applying Psychological Research to Legal Practice. 20. Generalizing Eyewitness Reliability Research -- 21. Mistaken Identification Erroneous Conviction? Assessing and Improving Legal Safeguards -- 22. Giving Psychology Away to Lawyers.
Summary The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time, extensive reviews of factors influencing witnesses of all ages-children, adults, and the elderly-are compiled in a single pair of volumes. The disparate research currently being conducted in eyewitness memory in psychology, criminal justice, and legal studies is coherently presented in this work.
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Subject Eyewitness identification.
Eyewitness identification.
Forensic psychology.
Forensic psychology.
Evidence, Criminal.
Criminals -- United States -- Identification.
Evidence, Criminal.
United States.
Genre/Form Field guides.
Subject Criminals.
LAW -- Forensic Science.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Lindsay, Rod C. L. (Roderick Cameron Lodge), 1946-
Added Title Memory for people
Other Form: Print version: Handbook of eyewitness psychology. Vol. 2, Memory for people. Mahwah, NJ. ; London : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007 9780805851526 (OCoLC)123340084
ISBN 9781135608187 (electronic book)
1135608180 (electronic book)