Eyewitness Identification Reform: Psychological Science and Public Policy

Eyewitness Identification Reform: Psychological Science and Public Policy
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 10:00:00 -0500

Eyewitnesses sometimes make mistakes that result in falsely convicting innocent people. As a result and as a matter of law, several states and local jurisdictions are implementing new procedures for conducting eyewitness identifications.

But Steven Clark, a professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside, whose research is directed at issues of human learning and memory, says these new procedures may be based in part on a false premise. He argues that proponents, who ...

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