Recent Developments in Eyewitness Identification Procedures in the United Kingdom

Handbook of Psychology of Investigative Interviewing: Current Developments and Future Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 221-240

  Valentine, Tim ^a,b   Hughes, Carwyn ^c,d   Munro, Rod ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^c Police Headquarters   (United Kingdom)

^d CID   (United Kingdom)

^e Devon and Cornwall Police ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Eyewitness identification powerful form of evidence in CCTV imagery; Eyewitness identification and eyewitness confidence and accuracy; Factors affecting eyewitness identification; Live line ups by police under PACE guidelines; Perception of identification officers; Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and Code D; Recent eyewitness identification procedures in United Kingdom; Research on wrongful convictions Devlin being revisited; Sequential vs. simultaneous presentation; Video technology replacing live identity parades in England and Wales

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872377508     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470747599.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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