Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

equal-focus camera perspective be used at the time of the initial recording. G. Daniel Lassiter, Lezlee J. Ware, and Jennifer J. ...

effect by conventional standards. Under optimal condi- tions (high reliability; not dropping, replacing, or mod- ifying items; f ...

civil commitment, release from prison or forensic hos- pital, sentencing, transfer of youths to adult court, and sexually violen ...

low. Despite these developments, other legal decisions upheld the constitutionality of clinical predictions of violence. Further ...

prediction for informing the typeof treatment that would reduce risk. These limitations have led some researchers to express con ...

identifications were used as evidence. But a growing body of research suggests that the use of voice identi- fications in court ...

depend partly on your actual auditory memory for voices and partly on your expectations of who might be calling you, your knowle ...

Voices may easily be disguised, further decreasing the ability of a witness to accurately recognize a voice. When a witness hear ...

Further Readings Broeders, A. P. A., & van Amelsvoort, A. G. (1999). Lineup construction for forensic earwitness identificat ...

prospective jurors’ ability to serve as impartial jurors. Federal court adheres to this format of voir dire. Extended voir dire ...

Research on the Format and Effectiveness of Voir Dire Perceptions and opinions about the voir dire proce- dure are mixed; while ...

jurors, there are other obstacles that may impede juror honesty during voir dire. There are several features of voir dire that m ...

859 WAIVER TOCRIMINALCOURT Juvenile transfer to adult court is the process by which some youths who are viewed by juvenile court ...

the juvenile justice system no longer has jurisdiction), the law allows juvenile court judges to waive jurisdic- tion. This then ...

judge) recognize the decision error and plan a pretrial hearing in criminal court, which then allows the crimi- nal court judge ...

(YLS/CMI), and the Risk-Sophistication-Treatment Inventory (RSTI) are all measures that could be used to examine youths and prov ...

with a completely visible weapon is compared with performance in a condition with no weapon, but in some studies researchers hav ...

witnesses can overcome the weapon focus effect, which implies that weapons probably do not capture attention automatically. Kerr ...

so as to make a decision. In the WITNESS model, the decision to make an identification is based on the best match and the next b ...

The Importance of Mathematical Models Why is it important to develop mathematical models for eyewitness identification? Mathemat ...