Handbook Of Eyewitness Psychology 2 Volume Set Memory for People

The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time, extensive reviews of factors influencing witnesses of all ages – children, adults, and the elderly – are compiled in a single pair of volumes. The disparate research currently being conducted in eyewitness memory in psychology, criminal justice, and legal studies is coherently presented in this work. Volume 1 covers memory for events. Volume 2 cover memory for people.

Part 1: Finding Suspects.  Person Descriptions as Eyewitness Evidence.  Mug Books: More than Just Large Photospreads.  Facial Composites: Forensic Utility and Psychological Research  Part 2: Identifying Suspects: System Variables.  Remembering Faces.  The Psychology of Speaker Identification and Earwitness Memory.  Show-up Identifications: Suggestive Technique or Reliable Method?  Lineup Construction and Lineup Fairness.  Radical Alternatives to Traditional Lineups.  A Role for Theory in Eyewitness Identification Research.  Applied Lineup Theory  Part 3: Identifying Suspects: Estimator Variables.  The Influence of Race on Eyewitness Memory.  Person Description and Identification by Child Witnesses.  Eyewitness Memory in Young and Older Adults.  Remembering and Identifying Menacing Perpetrators: Exposure to Violence and the Weapon Focus Effect.  The Effects of Delay on Eyewitness Identification Accuracy: Should we be Concerned?  Eyewitness Confidence and the Confidence-accuracy Relationship in Memory for People. Distinguishing Accurate Identifications from Erroneous Ones: Post-dictive Indicators of Eyewitness Accuracy  Part 4: Belief of Eyewitness Identification.  Has Eyewitness Research Penetrated the American Legal System?  Belief of Eyewitness Identification Evidence  Part 5: Applying Psychological Research to Legal Practice.  Generalizing Eyewitness Reliability Research.  Mistaken Identification: Erroneous Convictions? - Assessing and Improving Legal Safeguards.  Giving Away Psychology to Lawyers