Personal identification

I felt inept as I swung the hammer and struck the nail at angle, clumsily bending yet another nail. The seemingly oversized hammer, felt large and awkward in my small eight-year old hands. My dad turned and smiled encouragingly as he skillfully tapped another nail into the beam. My tiny arms felt weak as I swung the hammer upward for what seemed like the hundredth time, but this time the hammer struck the nail directly driving it into the beam. I looked up to see a smile of approval as my dad…

With the onset of television shows like CSI and NCIS, people have their own views of how the Criminal Justice System uses and obtains forensic evidence. One of the main issues with the media influence today is how people assume that forensics in the real world is exactly like the shows that portray it. “If people’s reactions to crime and criminals are generally shaped by the mass media, then it seems reasonable to assume that public reactions to criminal cases are shaped by shows like CSI”…

book, a main character, Irene Redfield focuses on her childhood friend’s, Clare Kendry, decision to pass as a white woman in society, even though Clare is (as well as Irene are) also black. As a result, as Irene is attempting to discover her own identification, it is evident that there are ramifications of such actions in the eyes of Nella Larsen. It is important for readers to take this perspective and have it applied to the overall text because it touches basis on how deeply a person is…

DNA testing which can also be label as DNA fingerprinting, DNA profiling and even DNA typing is considered a forensic technique that can be used to identify a person by their characteristics of their DNA. (What is DNA Testing?, 2016). DNA testing was developed in 1985, to identify a suspect and placed that initial suspect at the incident location during the time of the crime. DNA testing have evolve in the past decade that is can be used to study the animal populations. DNA testing can collected…

others in ways that sometimes do not reflect their inner self. However, through identification, individuals are able to decide which and to what degree identities apply to them. In other words, identification is not about fitting in to a label, but making the label fit into the individual’s perception of their self. In “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” Azar Nafisi and her students exercise the power…

Conflict Identification and Resolution A couple years ago I was internally recruited by my company for an expat assignment in South America. I was grouped with five other U.S. employees to travel down to Brazil for a three year assignment. With apprehension and excitement in my heart I packed up my life and my wife and started the journey. The team and our families arrived within days of each other to start our new adventure. During the first three weeks each family was assigned a local…

I. Research Question: Laura Smalarz and Gary L. Wells conducted a study, Post-Identification Feedback to Eyewitnesses Impairs Evaluators’ Abilities to Discriminate between Accurate and Mistaken Testimony. The main research question in this study was whether feedback interferes with evaluators’ abilities to discriminate between accurate and mistaken identification testimony. This study is interesting because many people have been wrongfully convicted because of mistaken eyewitness testimonies.…

review and analysis will define the impact of stress/trauma and the positive effect of supportive interviewing for children’s eyewitness identification. The studies done by Rush et al (2014) and Hritz et al (2015) identify the impact of stress on the child, which can be reduced through the supportive guidance of well-informed adult interviewers in the identification of suspect in a line up. These findings provide empirical evidence of the supportive environment that is needed to reduce memory…

suspects are identified by eyewitnesses in American trials (Denholtz, T. L., & McDonough, E. A., 2015). After a century of researching on eyewitness identification testimony, psychologists have reached a consensus that eyewitness testimony error is the leading cause for false conviction. Researches have showed that among witnesses who made an identification under the experimental situation, 36% identified a known-innocent filler rather than a suspect, indicating that eyewitness performance…

Clark, Steven E., Michael A. Erickson Jesse Breneman. 2011. "Probative value of absolute and relative judgments in eyewitness identification." Law and Human Behavior 35 (5): 364-380. Accessed September 14, 2016. doi: 10.1007/s10979-010-9245-1. This peer-viewed report, published in the Law and Human Behavior journal, the official journal for the American Psychology-Law Society compares the two decision-making models of judgement, relative and absolute using the WITNESS model (a computerised…