Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

This article examines “familiar identifications,” or identifications where an eyewitness
explicitly states that she has seen the perpetrator before the crime. The first section of this …

The majority of cases in the United States are disposed of through plea bargaining;
however, this important discretionary point has received relatively little attention from …

Objective: According to the pristine conditions hypothesis, high-confidence identifications
will be “remarkably accurate” when identification procedures (ie, system variables, eg, fair …

Research about intoxicated witnesses and criminal suspects is surprisingly limited,
considering the police believe that they are quite ubiquitous. In the present study, we …

Objectives It is well established that defendants who plead guilty receive reduced sentences
compared to the likely outcome if convicted at trial. Prominent theories of plea bargaining …

Research into juror perceptions regarding the impact of intoxication on eyewitness memory
and credibility is scarce for substances other than alcohol. However, jurors are frequently …

A sample of defense attorneys and prosecutors from matched California counties
participated in a two-part study. Study 1A reports the results of a survey regarding how …

The current study examined the influence of eyewitness familiarity with the defendant
(familiar vs. not familiar), type of descriptor discrepancy (none vs. permanent vs. non …

Research finds we make spontaneous trait inferences from facial appearance, even after
brief exposures to a face (ie,≤ 100 ms). We examined spontaneous impressions of …