Eyewitnesses make mistakes. Our understanding of how to improve the accuracy of eyewitness identifications is imperfect and evolving. In the previous chapters, we described law enforcement procedures ...

On the other side, Gronlund et al. prefers Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis (ROC), a method that measures discriminability, or the degree to which eyewitnesses can differentiate between the ...

The accurate identification of the perpetrators of crimes presents a critical psychological problem for law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Much research has shown that the single ...

Citing the vagaries of human memory and a host of other factors, the state Supreme Court on Wednesday changed the rules for trial judges and juries considering eyewitness identification of suspects in ...