Measuring Lineup Fairness: Mock Witness Responses versus Direct Evaluations of Lineups

Measuring the goodness of lineups: param

Measuring the goodness of lineups: parameter estimation, question effects, and limits to the mock witness paradigm

✍ Gary L. Wells; Amy L. Bradfield 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 249 KB

Lineups and photospreads can be biased against a criminal suspect and there is a need to measure this bias. The mock witness method has been accepted by eyewitness scientists since the 1970s as the paradigm for generating the data on which various metrics of bias are based. We note the reasons that