Who should join the suspect in a police photo array?

谁应该与嫌疑人一起参加警方合影留念？

• 批准号: DP150101905
• 负责人: Prof Neil Brewer
• 金额: $ 39.19万
• 依托单位: Flinders University
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP150101905
• 关键词: Who; should; join; suspect; police

The traditional police line-up often produces inaccurate decisions, with witnesses failing to pick the culprit or picking an innocent suspect. Surprisingly, despite all the scientific advances with respect to the collection of eyewitness evidence, there is absolutely no objective basis for selecting the ‘fillers’ to accompany the suspect in the line-up. Guidelines merely suggest the fillers should not be too similar or too dissimilar to the suspect. However, the fillers are likely to have a crucial influence on decision accuracy. This project aims to remedy this striking deficiency by developing and testing a flexible and universally applicable methodology for photo array composition that will optimise judgmental discriminability and curtail bias.

传统的警察指认往往会产生不准确的判断，目击者要么找不到罪犯，要么找不到无辜的嫌疑人。令人惊讶的是，尽管在收集目击者证据方面取得了所有的科学进步，但在选择陪同嫌疑人的“替补”方面却绝对没有客观依据。指导方针只是建议填充物不应该与嫌疑人太相似或太不同。然而，填充物可能对决策准确性有至关重要的影响。该项目旨在通过开发和测试一种灵活且普遍适用的光电阵列构图方法来弥补这一显著缺陷，该方法将优化判断的可辨别性并减少偏见。