A Test of the Simultaneous vs . Sequential Lineup Methods An Initial Report of the AJS National Eyewitness Identification Field Studies
A Test of the Simultaneous vs . Sequential Lineup Methods An Initial Report of the AJS National Eyewitness Identification Field Studies
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同时与同步的测试
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2011
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Jennifer E. Dysart
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G. Wells;N. Steblay;Jennifer E. Dysart
Founded in 1913, the American Judicature Society is an independent, non-partisan, membership organization working nationally to protect the integrity of the American justice system. AJS's diverse and broadly based membership – including judges, lawyers, and members of the public – promotes fair and impartial courts through research, publications, education, and advocacy for judicial reform. The work of AJS focuses primarily on judicial ethics, judicial selection, access to justice, criminal justice reform, and the jury system. 1 The Innocence Project self-funded its participation in the Eyewitness Identification Field Studies, which included significant contributions of professional staff time, travel and OTP costs Acknowledgements The authors and Eyewitness Identification (EWID) partnership offer special thanks to the following individuals for their advice and support during the development and implementation of the AJS National Eyewitness Identification Field Studies. The authors and EWID partnership offer special thanks to the following police departments, law enforcement executives and personnel, district attorneys, and legal professionals for their participation and their commitment to ensuring that the EWID Field Studies were a success. Without their partnership and support, the Field Studies would not have been possible. The authors and EWID Partnership offer special thanks to the following individuals for their support and input on this project: Executive Summary The significant role that mistaken eyewitness identifications have played in convictions of the innocent has led to a strong interest in finding ways to reduce eyewitness identification errors. Psychological scientists have been conducting laboratory studies on this problem for over 30 years and have proposed a number of possible reforms to the procedures used in conducting lineups. Most of the proposed reforms, including the critical requirement of double-blind administration (the administrator does not know the identity of the suspect), have not been considered controversial in principle and many jurisdictions across the United States have adopted them. The use of a double-blind (DB) sequential rather than a DB simultaneous lineup procedure, however, has engendered controversy, a controversy that has unnecessarily held back the adoption of non-controversial reforms in many jurisdictions. The sequential lineup shows lineup members to the witness one at a time and asks the witness to make a decision on each one before showing the next one, whereas the traditional simultaneous lineup shows the witness all lineup members at once. Controlled laboratory experiments consistently show that the DB sequential procedure results in a substantial reduction of mistaken identifications and a much smaller …