ABSTRACT
Methods, Measures, and Theories in Eyewitness Recognition Tasks provides a comprehensive review of the fundamental issues surrounding eyewitness recognition phenomena alongside suggestions for developing a more methodologically rigorous eyewitness science.
Over the past 40 years, the field of eyewitness science has seen substantial advancement in eyewitness identification procedures, yet theoretical and methodological developments have fallen behind. Featuring contributions from prominent international scholars, this book examines methodological and theoretical limitations and explores important topics, including how to increase the accuracy of identifying perpetrators when using CCTV images, how to create more identifiable facial composites, and the differences in accuracy between younger and older eyewitnesses.
Providing in-depth discussion on the limitations of traditional lineups, eyewitness memory fallibility, and the complications that arise when using laboratory simulations, along with suggestions for new methods, this book will be an invaluable resource for researchers in eyewitness recognition, lawyers, players in the criminal justice system, members of innocence commissions, and researchers with interests in cognitive psychology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |10 pages
Introduction
part |72 pages
Finding Persons
part |240 pages
Identifying Persons
chapter 7|33 pages
A Process Perspective
chapter 10|23 pages
Dealing With Data From Real Witnesses
part |51 pages
Special Considerations for Older and Younger Eyewitnesses
chapter 14|28 pages
False Memory
part |15 pages
Conclusion