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Probative or Prejudicial Eyewitness Testimony?

of such testimony even more controversial (Ebbesen, 2003). There is no contesting the fact that assessing the validity of...

Recall of Eyewitnesses and the Potential for Inaccuracy

potential culprit is in the line-up, the children and the elderly performed as an accuracy rate very similar to that of young adul...

Health Care, Bigotry, and Prejudice

This paper considers various strategies that can be applied to prevent prejudicial relationships between health care workers and p...

Amicus Brief: Recovered Memories

Children play an entertaining game of telephone operator, where one child whispers a short story to the next child in line, who th...

Personality As A Stable Construct, Behavioral Versus Cognitive Learning And The Inaccuracy Of Eyewitness Testimony

the twenty-first century, the question is not does man continue upon this ever-broadening road of tremendous technological discove...

Can Recovered Memories and Eyewitness Testimony Be Trusted?

Men and women are being accused, tried, and convicted with no proof or evidence of guilt other than the word of the accuser" (Loft...

Health, Environment, and Law

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

Examination of False Memories

an even more dangerous approach to getting at the truth in a court case, being that the fairly recent trend toward psychotherapy h...

In Court Identification and Eyewitness Testimony

"fallible sensory perception and memory and from suggestive influences" To illustrate this problem it is...

Eyewitness Testimony Admissibility

Time Estimates: eyewitnesses typically overestimate how long an event took to unfold; 4. Cross-race Bias: eyewitnesses are more ac...

The Government Cover Up of the UFO Crash in Roswell, New Mexico

In five pages this paper examines the purported UFO crash in Roswell and basing its argument on the testimony of eyewitnesses as w...

The Problems with Eye Witness Testimony

in the way that evidence is initially gathered (Wells et al, 1990, 1998). There are thee main principles that can explain the w...

Wright/Armageddon in Waco

presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and no...

Wrongful Conviction

- if not utterly unsettling - accounts with that of the Salem witch trials where personal agenda was the sole motivation that fuel...

Diaz del Castillo/The Conquest of New Spain

and pride of race, a lust of gold and a blind faith in their religion, together with an absolute contempt for that of other men we...

Ambiguous Meanings Long-Term Memory

This essay discusses several issues that have to do with cognition and memory. Attention and Memory are two of the issues, texting...

A Day in Tiananmen Square

This 8 page paper is a creative essay, based on eyewitness accounts, of what happened the day of the massacre in Tiananmen Square....

New Ways of Investigating Street Crime

waiting for the "perp" to arrive on the scene. Community policing, a form of urban law enforcement, is a restructuring plan that ...

The Atrocities of Auschwitz and Balancing Sanity and Survival

human resilience be stretched without being torn asunder, and how long can the spark of human spirit burn within when it is expose...

Identification Procedures & Mirada Issues

It is a fact that there is a tendency for memories to be constructed so that missing information is drawn from "expectations" or "...

Overview of Vampirism

became a variety of vampire lore which abounded. Interestingly enough, however, the basic idea that this entity was the undead, ca...

An Eyewitness Voodoo Ritual Account

In this paper consisting of eleven pages an eyewitness account of a Vodun or Voodoo 'day of the dead' ritual is simulated and back...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

A Review of Eyewitness to Power

A 5 page review of the book by David Gergen. 1 source....

Criminal Justice System and 2 Studies on False Confessions and Eyewitness Importance

In eighteen pages this paper examines 2 studies on this topic with methodologies' proposals and review of relevant literature prov...

Eyewitness Accounts of Holocaust Survival

lived, who died, who had a decent job, or was worked to death depended largely on luck and on not panicking when confronted by the...

Was Monica Lewinsky's Testimony a Lie?

to say it, and when to say it. When called to give an affidavit under oath, was she entirely truthful? Well never know. Did she pr...

Forensic Testimony As a Legal Defense

In twenty one pages this paper discusses legal defense in a consideration of the role played by forensic testimony and also examin...

Personal Testimony Reliability of Holocaust Survivors and Their Usefulness

Holocaust clearly and painfully etched in everyones mind so as not to forget the hideous events of such an inhumane period. The m...

Holocaust Testimonies by Lawrence Langer

In five pages this text is reviewed in terms of self, memory, and how these processes are represented in Holocaust survivors' oral...