Eyewitness testimony

There are many different types of lineups, but the 3 most common are photo lineups, drive by lineups, and eyewitness identification lineups. Lastly, there are many different types of safety kits they have to carry around at all times, but I’m gonna describe 4 I thought were most important. The 4 types are a blood collection kit, bloodstain pattern documentation…

and the command given by "our Lord and Savior" through the apostles. In 2 Pet 1:19-21, Peter writes "We have the more certain prophetic word." What he means is that the church has the prophetic word about Christ that confirms the apostolic, eyewitness testimony about Christ (2 Pet 1:16-18). He no doubt expects his readers to call to mind the details of this prophetic word about Christ. Peter also makes reference to "the holy commandment" as that which the false teachers have rejected. In this…

A major role in criminal justice system with many crimes are eyewitnesses, they are vital in identifying, charging and convicting perpetrators of crimes. There are numerous issues concerning child eyewitnesses in the criminal justice system, such as accuracy and reliability. A number of researchers have theorised that children assume that adults would not request a child to identify a target if they were not in the line-up. Children feel pressured to identify regardless of whether it was a…

Criminal/Forensic psychology first manifested into the criminal justice system in the mid-1990s, when professors in universities began to teach it. However, this was not the first recorded evidence of criminal psychology. In the bible, it is noted that the first murder to be committed was by Cain, a son of Adam and Eve who killed his brother, Abel because God favored Abel’s sacrifice over Cain’s. German psychologist Hugo Munsterberg, known as the father of applied psychology was the first to…

Jury plays a vital role in a criminal case in that the life of the offendder ulitimately hangs in the balance of those twelve unique individuals hands. It is their duty to remain impartial, independent, uninfluenced by any other person, and only decide the facts of the case. However, we are humans, and each of us perceive the world in different ways, which are influenced by our past and present experiences. Therefore, our judgements are clouded if we are unable to move away from those…

Carl Martin Allwood, and Ase Innes-Ker, focused on the variables that may have biased or impacted the testimony of the eyewitness, such as how forensic specialists interacted with or questioned the eyewitness and free recall, which is when the details of the eyewitness’ experience is discussed repeatedly. By focusing on these aspects, researchers are able to test confidence accuracy in the eyewitness memory and analyze what influences the accuracy of the their memory of the crime. Confidence…

In my experience, I do not think that our memory is similar to a tape recorder or a video recorder. It is hard to play a memory that is like a tape recorder or video recorder because one can forget major or minor details that might have taken place. A person cannot simply recall every small detail that already happened because you could combine memories together. When I recall a memory and I am not sure what exactly happened, I tend to ask someone who was there with me. For example, if my…

DNA fingerprinting is also known as DNA typing or profiling, and is a method of identifying elements with the base pair sequencing of DNA, which is further used for convicting criminals by profiling an individual’s DNA. This procedure, which enables law enforcement to obtain DNA profiling, first consist of obtaining samples of cells from skin, hair, mucous, and/or blood, all which contain DNA. The DNA is then extracted from the collection, purified, then cut along points that contain proteins;…

The change blindness phenomenon has a lot of practical implication in our daily lives. In a study, Change blindness and eyewitness memory, Davies and Hine (2007) conducted an experiment to test the recall ability of participants. In this experiment 40 men and 40 women were made to watch an enactment of a burglary where the burglars face changes half way. Half the participants were instructed to remember the burglar and the other half were given any specific instructions. When the participants…

observation, and illogical reasoning. Inaccurate observations are when individuals do not truly commit to actually analyzing the observation. It is easy to make mistakes when you are not paying attention to something completely; some classify it as eyewitness testimony error. Overgeneralization is when an individual concludes a singular belief based on a small sample size. Selective…