NCJ Number
120545
Editor(s)
D C Raskin
Date Published
1989
Length
399 pages
Annotation
During the last 20 years the involvement of psychological techniques and expertise in criminal investigation has dramatically increased.
Abstract
This two-part book contains chapters on eyewitness performance and interviewing and assessing witnesses, victims, and suspects. Specifically, it covers the psychology of eyewitness testimony, procedures for obtaining identification evidence, field studies of eyewitness memory of actual crimes, legal issues, investigative hypnosis, the cognitive interview technique, criteria-based statement analysis, polygraphy, hazards in detecting deceit, and the admissibility of polygraph- and hypnosis-derived evidence. Index.