Product Description: Roger L. Terry grew up in Danbury, Connecticut; and after a year at Danbury High School, he transferred to Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts and graduated in 1954. He started his training in psychology at Yale University, receiving his bachelor of arts degree in 1962...read more

An examination of wrongful convictions in America as a result of honest but mistaken testimony on the part of eyewitnesses reveals the devastating impact of the imprisonment of innocent people and the freedom of criminals, challenging legal traditions while proposing options for improved identification practices. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: Mistaken eyewitness identification is one of the main causes of erroneous conviction. Despite voir dire, suppression motions, cross-examination, expert testimony, and special judges’ instructions, mistaken identifications still lead to false convictions...read more

Product Description: DETAILS CIVIL AND CRIMINAL EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY

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

Product Description: The criminal justice system has devised several procedural safeguards to protect defendants from erroneous conviction resulting from mistaken eyewitness identification. Mistaken Identification: The Eyewitness, Psychology and the Law reviews the empirical research bearing on the adequacy of those safeguards...read more

Product Description: As pertinent today as when it was first published more than a decade ago, this engaging and highly praised study makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned, and how new memories can be implanted and old ones altered in subtle ways...read more

Explains why eyewitness identifications, usually damning, can be unreliable and can result in the conviction of innocent people