Various measures have been proposed to test the fairness of lineups (Doob & Kirshenbaum, 1973;Malpass, 1981;Wells, Leippe and Ostrom, 1979). In three experiments, we examined the relationship of identiยฎcation accuracy to measures of lineup bias ( proportion of mock witness choices, defendant bias, f
Does race influence measures of lineup fairness?
โ Scribed by R. C. L. Lindsay; David F. Ross; Steven M. Smith; Sean Flanigan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
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โฆ Synopsis
Little attention has been paid to cross-race eects on lineup fairness. Brigham demonstrated that lineup construction is inยฏuenced by race and that the mock-witness task may be inยฏuenced by racial dierences. Two experiments extend our knowledge of cross-race issues in the measurement of lineup fairness to include target-absent lineups, descriptions based on viewing staged crimes, and Asian as well as Black and White participants. The results are mixed with some evidence suggesting little or no impact of race on measures of lineup fairness while other evidence indicates the opposite.
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