The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification: Exploring the Relationship Between Traditional and Alternative Approaches to Recognition [Hardcover]

1.Introduction and Overview.? 2.Traditional and Alternative Approaches to Recognition.? 3.Appearance and Methodology.? 4.The Theoretical Relationship between Identity, Confidence and Similarity.? 5.The Practical Utility of Confidence and Similarity as Alternatives to Identification.? 6.Conclusion

To modify and align investigatory and legal processes with witness capabilities and reflect memorial and decision processes that inform recognition judgements, this book?examines lineup-based recognition approaches not requiring witnesses to identify a perpetartor: noncategorical confidence and noncategorical similarity judgements.

Arguing for a need to modify investigatory and legal processes so that they align with the capabilities of witnesses and reflect the memorial and decision processes that inform recognition judgements, this book examines two radical alternative approaches to lineup-based recognition that do not require witnesses to identify a perpetrator: Noncategorical confidence and noncategorical similarity judgements.

Using empirical data, the authors explore the relationship between identification decisions, confidence judgements, and similarity judgements in lineupbased recognition tasks and reflect on whether similarity underpins more complex judgements of identity and confidence. They also examine the practical utility of confidence and similarity judgements and consider how such alternatives might be conceptualised in a legal context. This book draws on the areas of psychology and law to outline the key issues of identification and calls for a revision in how we think about, obtain, and present eyewitness evidence from lineups.

Prompting a consideration of new solutions and concepts to help witness errors become a problem of the past, The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification will be of great interest to slc-