Expert Psychology Testimony on Eyewitness Identification: A Matter of Common Sense?

Expert Testimony on the Psychology of Eyewitness Identification

Volumn 9780195331974, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Don Read, J ^a   Desmarais, Sarah L ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Admissibility; Estimator variables; Experts; Eyewitness; Identification; Jurors; Lay knowledge; Surveys; System variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921666454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195331974.003.006     Document Type: Chapter

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