Witness And Memory

Author : Elizabeth Loftus
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250086310
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness for the Defense written by Elizabeth Loftus and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The study of memory had become my specialty, my passion. In the next few years I wrote dozens of papers about how memory works and how it fails, but unlike most researchers studying memory, my work kept reaching out into the real world. To what extent, I wondered, could a person's memory be shaped by suggestion? When people witness a serious automobile accident, how accurate is their recollection of the facts? If a witness is questioned by a police officer, will the manner of questioning alter the representation of the memory? Can memories be supplemented with additional, false information?" The "passion" Loftus describes in the lines above led her to a teaching career at the University of Washington and, perhaps more importantly, into hundreds of courtrooms as an expert witness on the fallibility of eyewitness accounts. As she has explained in numerous trials, and as she convincingly argues in this absorbing book, eyewitness accounts can be and often are so distorted that they no longer resemble the truth.

Author : Ana Douglass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136073620
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness and Memory written by Ana Douglass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection within the anthropology of violence and witness studies, a discipline inaugurated in the 1980s. It accomplishes a tight focus while tackling seemingly disparate topics: from Rigoberat Menchu to O.J. Simpson, and from feminist poetry to Hiroshima Mon Amour. With approaches ranging from anthropological and historical to literary and philosophical, this collection is engaging in both subject matter and writing style.

Author : Frances Guerin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image and the Witness written by Frances Guerin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture is a timely interdisciplinary collection of original essays concerning the ethical stakes of the image in our visually-saturated age. It explores the role of the material image in bearing witness to historical events and the visual representation of witnesses to collective trauma. In arguing for the agency of the image, this unique collection debates post-traumatic memory, documentary ethics, embodied vision, and the recycling of images. It discusses works by Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Derek Jarman, Doris Salcedo, Gerhard Richter, and Boris Mikhailov, along with images from popular culture, including websites and home movies.

Author : Hugo Munsterberg
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465583408
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Psychology and Crime written by Hugo Munsterberg and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steffi de Jong
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785336436
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Witness as Object written by Steffi de Jong and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum objectâ€_x009d_ in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined with narrative and exhibit design. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time this new global process of “musealisationâ€_x009d_ of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.

Author : R.C.L. Lindsay
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135608172
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume II written by R.C.L. Lindsay and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2007-02-13 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time, extensive reviews of factors influencing witnesses of all ages-chil

Author : Brian L. Cutler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521445726
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mistaken Identification written by Brian L. Cutler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-25 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines traditional safeguards against mistaken eyewitness identification.

Author : Elizabeth F. Loftus
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674287778
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eyewitness Testimony written by Elizabeth F. Loftus and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the way an eyewitness is questioned, and how new memories can be implanted and old ones changed in subtle ways.

Author : Eli Rubenstein
Publisher : Second Story Press
ISBN 13 : 1772600083
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness written by Eli Rubenstein and published by Second Story Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 25 years, the March of the Living has organized visits for adults and students from all over the world to Poland, where millions of Jews were enslaved and murdered by Nazi Germany during WWII. The organization's goal is not only to remember and bear witness to the terrible events of the past, but also to look forward. They want to inspire participants to build a world free of oppression and intolerance, a world of freedom, democracy and justice for all members of the human family. Rooted in a touring exhibit launched at the United Nations, this book is a compilation of photographs and text that give firsthand accounts from the survivors who have participated in March of the Living programs, together with reactions and responses from the people, young students in particular, of many faiths and cultures worldwide who have traveled with the group over the years.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309310628
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Identifying the Culprit written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitnesses play an important role in criminal cases when they can identify culprits. Estimates suggest that tens of thousands of eyewitnesses make identifications in criminal investigations each year. Research on factors that affect the accuracy of eyewitness identification procedures has given us an increasingly clear picture of how identifications are made, and more importantly, an improved understanding of the principled limits on vision and memory that can lead to failure of identification. Factors such as viewing conditions, duress, elevated emotions, and biases influence the visual perception experience. Perceptual experiences are stored by a system of memory that is highly malleable and continuously evolving, neither retaining nor divulging content in an informational vacuum. As such, the fidelity of our memories to actual events may be compromised by many factors at all stages of processing, from encoding to storage and retrieval. Unknown to the individual, memories are forgotten, reconstructed, updated, and distorted. Complicating the process further, policies governing law enforcement procedures for conducting and recording identifications are not standard, and policies and practices to address the issue of misidentification vary widely. These limitations can produce mistaken identifications with significant consequences. What can we do to make certain that eyewitness identification convicts the guilty and exonerates the innocent? Identifying the Culprit makes the case that better data collection and research on eyewitness identification, new law enforcement training protocols, standardized procedures for administering line-ups, and improvements in the handling of eyewitness identification in court can increase the chances that accurate identifications are made. This report explains the science that has emerged during the past 30 years on eyewitness identifications and identifies best practices in eyewitness procedures for the law enforcement community and in the presentation of eyewitness evidence in the courtroom. In order to continue the advancement of eyewitness identification research, the report recommends a focused research agenda. Identifying the Culprit will be an essential resource to assist the law enforcement and legal communities as they seek to understand the value and the limitations of eyewitness identification and make improvements to procedures.