Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System: Definitions, Theory, and Eyewitness Research

by Chelsea Sheahan, Emily Pica, Joanna Pozzulo

Eyewitness research has focused mainly on stranger identification, but identification is also critical for the "familiar stranger", and understanding how variability in an eyewitness's familiarity with the perpetrator may influence recall and recognition accuracy will facilitate swifter and more just resolutions to crime. Familiarity and Conviction in the Criminal Justice System examines the notion of familiarity between an eyewitness/victim and a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190874813
• ISBN13: 9780190874810
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"