Browsing Faculty of Social Science & Humanities by Author "Cutler, Brian"
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Are they right or wrong? Investigating the ability to judge the accuracy of eyewitnesses in same-and -other race identifications
Riess, Katherine E.L. (2012-08-01)Past research has investigated the cross-race effect in the context of eyewitnesses and jury decision-making. The main goal of my thesis was to gain further insight into participants’ knowledge of the cross-race effect and ... -
Development of the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument
Kaplan, Jeffrey (2023-04-01)Confession evidence factors heavily in judicial decision making, and courts may call an expert social scientist to assess the coercive pressures of an interrogation and risk factors for false confession. At present, there ... -
Perceptions of coercion: a comparison of perspectives
Kaplan, Jeffrey (2018-05-01)When a confession is retracted, issues of coercion and voluntariness are important and often contested matters in criminal courts. Counsel may wish to call an expert witness to testify about the coercive pressures of certain ... -
Showup identifications: the effects of presence of stolen property and suspect’s denial on identification performance
Smith, Andrew (2011-04-01)A showup identification is the presentation of a single suspect to an eyewitness. I used a simulated theft paradigm and subsequent showup identification to examine the effects of stolen property, suspects’ verbal behaviour, ...