Mistaken identification: the eyewitness, psychology, and the law

Abstract

1. Eyewitness identification errors 2. The admissibility of expert testimony on the psychology of eyewitness identification 3. Eyewitness experts in the courts of appeal 4. The scientific psychology of eyewitness identifications 5. Summarizing eyewitness research findings 6. Factors that influence eyewitness memory: witness factors 7. Factors that influence eyewitness memory: perpetrator and event factors 8. The effects of suggestive identification procedures on identification accuracy 9. Legal representation at identification procedures 10. Attorney sensitivity to factors influencing eyewitness reliability 11. Surveying lay knowledge about sources of eyewitness unreliability 12. The ability of jurors to differentiate accurate from inaccurate eyewitnesses 13. Jury sensitivity to factors that influence eyewitness reliability 14. Expert testimony and its possible impacts on the jury 15. Improving juror knowledge, integration and decision making 16. Court-appointed and opposing experts: better alternatives? 17. Instructing the jury about problems of mistaken identification.