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EVENT: Psychology Colloquium: Neil Brewer - Police line-ups in 2065: Getting the bad guy with certainty

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Presenter: Prof Neil Brewer

Neil Brewer is Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Flinders University. He was Dean of the School Psychology for around 10 years between 2000 and 2013. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the APAs Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied (2013-17). Most of his research is in the psychology-law area, especially eye witness memory - but he also collaborates on research on ASD and his book Crime and Autism Spectrum Disorder: Myths and Mechanisms (co-authored with Robyn Young) has just been published. He has been a long-serving Editorial Board member for all the leading journals in the psychology -law field and has also served on the ARC's College of Experts and on the Future Fellowships selection panel. He is invited regularly to present at conferences of judges and magistrates around Australia. His research has been cited in various court judgments including the US Supreme Court, NY Supreme Courts, the US Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit) and in the Court of Appeal in Western Australia. He is an honorary consultant to the Innocence Projects in the USA and New Zealand, has been involved in the preparation of Innocence Project Amicus Briefs in the US, and has recently been advising police and parliamentarians on model procedures for conducting eye witness identification tests in South Australia.

Title: Police line-ups in 2065: Getting the bad guy with certainty

Abstract:

Laboratory, field and archival case studies have demonstrated that witnesses to crimes frequently make mistakes when asked to identify a culprit from a photo-array. Despite promising advances over the last couple of decades, the likelihood of errors remains unacceptably high. In this presentation I will focus on two related issues. First, I will review a substancial body of our recent research which examines whether we are able to determine if an eyewitness identification decision is likely to be accurate. Then, I will outline recent experiments which explores some radical alternative procedures that remove the requirement for the witness to make a Yes-No identification decision, yet prove to be more informative about whether the police suspect is guilty than the traditional eyewitness identification test.
Speaker(s) Prof Neil Brewer
Location Arts Lecture Room 4
Contact Admin Psy <[email protected]>
Start Tue, 25 Aug 2015 13:00
End Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:00
Submitted by Admin Psy <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 15 Jul 2015 09:13
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