Little attention has been paid to cross-race eects on lineup fairness. Brigham demonstrated that lineup construction is in¯uenced by race and that the mock-witness task may be in¯uenced by racial dierences. Two experiments extend our knowledge of cross-race issues in the measurement of lineup fairne
Measuring lineup fairness
✍ Scribed by Roy S. Malpass; R. C. L. Lindsay
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 88 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The fairness of line-ups and photospreads is a traditional concern of research and policy development in the area of eyewitness identi®cation. Quanti®cation of fairness, the construction of fairness indices, and the development of evaluation procedures started in the 1970s and continues to this day. This paper reviews the historical development of the ®eld as an introduction to the articles that follow. The entire set of articles addresses current questions and raises new issues of measuring the fairness of identi®cation procedures.
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