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The role of eyewitness identification evidence in felony case dispositions.
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posted on 2016-02-01, 11:53 authored by Heather Flowe, Amrita Mehta, Ebbe B. EbbesenWe addressed the question of whether felony case dispositions are associated with eyewitness identification evidence. Toward this end, 725 felony cases (rape, robbery, and assault) were randomly sampled from the archives of a District Attorney’s Office in a large south-western city in the United States. Positive eyewitness identification evidence was more likely in cases issued
compared to those rejected for prosecution although other case factors were associated with issuing outcomes to a larger extent. Additionally, eyewitness identification evidence was stronger in prosecuted compared to rejected cases in which eyewitness testimony was the sole evidence against
the defendant. Neither the presence of multiple identifications nor non-identifications of the suspect
varied across issuing outcomes. The findings are discussed in relation to additional research that is needed at the police and prosecution stages to advance public policy development with respect to the evaluation of eyewitness identification evidence.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Psychology, Public Policy, and LawVolume
17Issue
1Pages
140 - 159Citation
FLOWE, H.D., MEHTA, A. and EBBESEN, E.B., 2011. The role of eyewitness identification evidence in felony case dispositions. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 17(1), pp. 140-159.Publisher
© American Psychological AssociationVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2011Notes
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.ISSN
1076-8971eISSN
1939-1528Publisher version
Language
- en