Criminal Law and Procedure columnist Barry Kamins reviews the new best practices for identification procedures by witnesses, which reflect the results of substantial scientific research in the area of ...

Police in the United States investigate millions of crimes each year. 1 Only a small percentage of the police-investigated crimes involve the use of police-arranged identification procedures.

Allowing eyewitnesses to dynamically explore digital faces using a new interactive procedure can significantly improve identification accuracy compared to the video lineup and photo array procedures ...

Eyewitnesses make mistakes. Our understanding of how to improve the accuracy of eyewitness identifications is imperfect and evolving. In the previous chapters, we described law enforcement procedures ...