Memory plays significant role in eyewitness identification by retrieving the correct information, its performance should be sound, reliable and accurate for eyewitness line-up identification .
There is a big difference between reliable memory and unreliable memory.
Reliable memory however, is the consistency and justice, thus; accuracy in recalling coding/ decoding the right event from the past, and accurately identifying the right suspect as he / she ’s the right offender with strong confidence without interferences. And unreliable memory, inconsistency, thus; shaky / week confidence, interferences wrong identification and this consequently would lead to miscarriage justice.
Nevertheless, eyewitness goal is that , when …show more content…
Further study, concerning memory distractions, was, the fact that memory is also distracted by violent incident and with more than one offender. The study was done to a sample of sixty subjects (30 males/ 30 females). The study was presented in form of video tapes, where made of three high violent scenes (5 men violently attacking a woman), and three nonviolent scenes. Experiment demonstrated, that memory recalling offender’s description (for clothing, height, weight, age, and male character) in the violent videotape was decreased in efficiency for both testimony and identification and not accurate due to violence distraction intensity and increase number of offenders. On the other hand, in nonviolent videotape, witnesses’ identification was more correct and with more confidence than those who made identification for violent scene (Clifford, Brian R. & Hollin, Clive R. 1981, p.366). According to the study, a violent scene could generate some kind of nervousness and stress in the eyewitness’s judgement, therefore, the eyewitness mental state was highly influenced/ distracted by violence and the number of offenders . Further, accuracy, confidence was also
There is a big difference between reliable memory and unreliable memory.
Reliable memory however, is the consistency and justice, thus; accuracy in recalling coding/ decoding the right event from the past, and accurately identifying the right suspect as he / she ’s the right offender with strong confidence without interferences. And unreliable memory, inconsistency, thus; shaky / week confidence, interferences wrong identification and this consequently would lead to miscarriage justice.
Nevertheless, eyewitness goal is that , when …show more content…
Further study, concerning memory distractions, was, the fact that memory is also distracted by violent incident and with more than one offender. The study was done to a sample of sixty subjects (30 males/ 30 females). The study was presented in form of video tapes, where made of three high violent scenes (5 men violently attacking a woman), and three nonviolent scenes. Experiment demonstrated, that memory recalling offender’s description (for clothing, height, weight, age, and male character) in the violent videotape was decreased in efficiency for both testimony and identification and not accurate due to violence distraction intensity and increase number of offenders. On the other hand, in nonviolent videotape, witnesses’ identification was more correct and with more confidence than those who made identification for violent scene (Clifford, Brian R. & Hollin, Clive R. 1981, p.366). According to the study, a violent scene could generate some kind of nervousness and stress in the eyewitness’s judgement, therefore, the eyewitness mental state was highly influenced/ distracted by violence and the number of offenders . Further, accuracy, confidence was also