Product Description: This volume provides a tutorial review and evaluation of scientific research on the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness identification. The book starts with the perspective that there are a variety of conceptual and empirical problems with eyewitness identification as a form of forensic evidence, just as there are a variety of problems with other forms of forensic evidence...read more

Reviews the basics of eyewitness fallibility and factors which can contribute to inaccurate reports and testimony and shows that memory can be radically altered by police interrogation and prosecution and defense tactics