RT Book
T1 Familiarity and conviction in the criminal justice system: definitions, theory, and eyewitness research
T2 American Psychology-Law Society series
A1 Pozzulo, Joanna
A1 Pica, Emily
A1 Sheahan, Chelsea
LA English
PP New York, NY
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1689139587
AB 1. Defining familiarity and overview of concepts -- 2. Theoretical underpinnings: A Social psychological perspective -- 3. Theoretical underpinnings: A Cognitive psychological perspective -- 4. Eyewitness descriptions and identifications of familiar perpetrators -- 5. Factors that can interact with familiarity: System variables -- 6. Factors that can interact with familiarity: Estimator variables -- 7. Considering familiarity as a dependent variable -- 8. How persuasive is an eyewitness who is familiar with the defendant? -- 9. Future directions for research examining the notion of familiarity and its impact on the criminal justice system.
AB "Eyewitnesses are likely to have some degree of familiarity with a perpetrator when a crime is committed. Despite the fact that the majority of crimes are committed by someone with whom the victim/ witness is familiar, the majority of eyewitness research has focused on the identification of stranger perpetrators. It is critical to examine how familiarity may influence eyewitness accuracy. Familiarity can vary from a complete stranger to a very familiar other. This book explores the "middle ground" as it relates to the Criminal Justice System; namely describing perpetrators, eyewitness identification, and jury decision making. The purpose of this book was to consolidate the literature that exists regarding familiarity and to apply this research to an eyewitness context. This book attempts to better understand how familiarity may impact eyewitnesses and to highlight key considerations when an eyewitness is familiar with a perpetrator while collecting eyewitness evidence and using it in a courtroom. This is achieved through an in-depth discussion of the definition of familiarity, the examination of critical social psychological and cognitive theory in relation to familiarity, a description of the current literature examining eyewitness familiarity, a discussion of familiarity-evidence in the courtroom, and a proposal for future directions and research"--
CN K5483
SN 9780190874810
K1 Eyewitness identification
K1 Witnesses : Psychology
K1 Witnesses
K1 Strafjustiz : Strafverfahren : Augenzeuge : Vertrautheit