Eyewitness identification

Eyewitness experiments do not induce the stress experienced by victims of a crime. In a study done by (Tim Valentine and Jan Mesout 2008 p 151). Participants visited the London dungeon and had to describe and identify what they encountered in the horror labyrinth. This was being investigated as a function of their state anxiety. Researchers found that high state anxiety was linked with a higher heart rate. Researchers also found that high state anxiety was linked with participants reporting less…

suggestibility plays a huge role in eyewitness identification during the photo lineup as well as questioning; the difference between conviction and release of an individual. Pratt’s case is a perfect example of how the criminal justice failed an innocent man by allowing parties within to corrupt the system. Seventy-five percent of the three-hundred-forty-one exonerated cases involved an eyewitness identification (Goldstein, 2015, 231). The courts focus on eyewitness statements as their main…

The concept of this article was about eyewitness accounts and how an individual is under stress they can most like mislead in their descriptions of crimes or misidentify suspects. In this research their main question was to see if a situation induces cognitive anxiety, high levels of physiological arousal can cause a marked impairment in eyewitness recall and identification. Deffenbacher had hypothesized that when high levels of cognitive anxiety and increasing levels of somatic anxiety will…

final appeal, and I am in favor that Herschel will not be executed next month. I state my position on Gilbert Herschel being a victim of false identification. There are many factors that contribute to unreliable eyewitness testimony, and I do believe that it is unjust to execute a man based only on eyewitness testimony, with no further evidence. An eyewitness testimony is involved with the memory, and as humans we know our memory tends to fail us sometimes. In regards to memory, we have the role…

When crimes occur, police and investigative officers rely on eyewitness from people that were close to the crime scene. Eyewitnesses then rely on their memories of what occurred during the crime. An eyewitness recalls the event they might give the wrong information and details of what happened because our memories are not perfect and the identifications that eyewitness make can be fallible. Eye witness is important to investigators because they can identify suspects and provide crucial…

The cards were stacked up against Walter Swift being accused of a crime he did not commit; eyewitness misidentification, incomplete forensic testimony, government misconduct and an inadequate defense. In 1982, a white pregnant woman was raped and robbed by a black man in her home in Detroit, Michigan while playing with her seven month old son. She described her assailant as a thin black man between the ages of 15 and 18. She stated to detective Janice Nobliski, that the man was clean shaven with…

Researchers believed there was an effect, and that change blindness had a strong influence on the accuracy and confidence of eyewitness identification. In the study, participants were told to pay close attention to the details of the event because they will take on the role as an eyewitness viewed a video that started as an innocent person walking through a building, and then another person who was stealing (Fitzgerald, Oriet, & Price, 2016). The subjects…

a plethora of individuals involved in it such as law enforcement, FBI, as well as prosecutors contain their own motives behind their definition of justice. Suggestibility plays a huge role in identifying a perpetrator, especially in terms of the eyewitness. Memory is malleable and perhaps changed based on outside information. For example, if a witness is unsure of themselves officers help by alluding to the suspect that fits best even if none of the individuals in the lineup were involved in the…

themes of the book is the unreliability of eyewitness identifications and how they are a significant contributing factor to wrongful convictions, leading to the incarceration of innocent individuals like Ronald Cotton. This concept talks about the issues with human memory and suggestive factors when making an identification. In our course discussions, we learned about the limitations, as well as the factors that can influence the accuracy of eyewitness…

and identification of the culprit. As a species of moral codes that are embedded in our society, we would have trouble not accepting a witnesses statement even though it was highly stress-inductive and traumatic which statistically yields more inaccurate memories. For example, if there was a rape case, as a society we feel the need to put on trial the man/women who the victim reports to have committed this horrific act in prison. However, this can be destructive if we solely rely on eyewitness…