Catalogue canadien de recherches policières

Investigating Investigators: examining the impact of eyewitness identification evidence on student-investigators / Melissa Ann Boyce.

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Recherches policières canadienne

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Livres électroniques

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1 online resource (ix, 110 pages)

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Ph.D. University of Victoria 2008.

Résumé

This research examined the impact of eyewitness identification decisions on student investigators.Undergraduates played the role of police investigators and interviewed student witnesses who in Studies 1 and 2 had been shown either a good or poor view of the perpetratoror in Study 3 viewed either a Caucasian or an Asian criminal, in a video-taped crime. Based on information obtained from the witness, student-investigators then chose a suspect from a database containing information about potential suspects and rated the probability that theirsuspect was the culprit. Investigators then administered a photo lineup to witnesses, and re-rated the probability that their suspect was guilty. Student-investigators were highly influenced by eyewitness identification decisions, typically overestimating the information gained from the identification decision (except under conditions that led witnesses to be very accurate), and generally did not differentiate between accurate and inaccurate witnesses.

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