Concept information
Preferred term
eyewitness identification
Definition
- Eyewitness identification refers to a process in which an eyewitness to a crime claims to recognize someone as being the culprit. Commonly, the identification is made from a lineup (photographic or live) constructed by police investigators in which someone who is suspected of being the culprit is embedded among known-innocent fillers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Eyewitness Identification]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/eyewitness_identification
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