The Reliability of Eyewitness Identifications from Police Lineups
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Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA; Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England; School of Psychology, the University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, 5005, Australia; Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, 92521, USA; Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University, Texas, 77341, USA
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Estimating the reliability of eyewitness identifications from police lineups.
Laboratory-based mock crime studies have often been interpreted to mean that (i) eyewitness confidence in an identification made from a lineup is a weak indicator of accuracy and (ii) sequential lineups are diagnostically superior to traditional simultaneous lineups. Largely as a result, juries are increasingly encouraged to disregard eyewitness confidence, and up to 30% of law enforcement agen...
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