Criminal Psychology : a Beginner's Guide

difficult for witnesses to successfully identify a person from a dif- ferent ‘type’, then such an identification, if correct, sh ...

growing number of research studies have scientifically examined the effects on witness testimony of emotion/stress/arousal or of ...

A considerable number of psychological experiments have studied the so-called ‘weapon focus’ effect. Among the first exper- imen ...

careful at the line-ups than the non-weapon witnesses. This lack of clarity concerning the effects of something (i.e. a weapon) ...

people present (that are usually in psychology referred to as ‘foils’ or ‘distractors’). Most of the relevant psychological rese ...

witnesses may not be able to see the perpetrators but can hear their voices. Thus work by criminal psychologists on voice identi ...

correctly to identify a voice they heard previously. In their con- cluding paragraph they stated: Inasmuch as the results we hav ...

voice identification is more difficult than visual identification; voice identification of a stranger’s voice is a very difficu ...

whether people could tell which voice (again of a suspect) was the only one not reading from a script; the extent to which the ...

Wagstaff, G., MacVeigh, J., Boston, R., Scott, L., Brunas-Wagstaff, J. and Cole, J. (2003) Can laboratory findings on eyewitness ...

forensic linguistics Compared with forensic psychology, forensic linguistics is a newer and smaller discipline. Forensic linguis ...

table and as you push him away he trips over and is hurt. Two policemen arrive and it is obvious that they want to speak with yo ...

stressful time you need to understand what has been said to you and apply it to your situation. For example, in the case describ ...

American forensic linguist, argues that although John DeLorean, a sports car manufacturer, was set up to be involved in a nefari ...

turns of phrase were repeated. A good example of one of these phrases is, ‘You can’t eat your cake and have it too.’ This turnin ...

features of voices which are relatively constant within individuals or change in predictable ways. For example, the basic pitch ...

to a sting operation by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The DEA alleged that DeLorean had knowingly agreed to take money f ...

language, understanding can be gained of how power works in the courtroom, of how witnesses are likely to respond to certain typ ...

As well as exchanges between witness and lawyer, courtroom linguists are interested in the communication between judge and jury. ...

One recent success in linguistic reform of the legal system has been Peter Tiersma’s work with the Californian Judicial Council ...