Familiarity and conviction in the criminal justice system : definitions, theory, and eyewitness research /
Eyewitness research has focused mainly on stranger identification, but identification is also critical for the 'familiar stranger', and understanding how variability in an eyewitness's familiarity with the perpetrator may influence recall and recognition accuracy will facilitate swift...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | American Psychology-Law Society series.
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Table of Contents:
- Defining familiarity and overview of concepts
- Theoretical underpinnings : a social psychological perspective
- Theoretical underpinnings : a cognitive psychological perspective
- Eyewitness descriptions and identifications of familiar perpetrators
- Factors that can interact with familiarity : system variables
- Factors that can interact with familiarity : estimator variables
- Considering familiarity as a dependent variable
- How persuasive is an eyewitness who is familiar with the defendant?
- Future directions for research examining the notion of familiarity and its impact on the criminal justice system.