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Should We Be Partial to Partial Identification?

Commentary on the Levi-Jungman Proposal

Adelphi University

GARY L. WELLS

Iowa State University

Eyewitness identification of criminal suspects from lineups and photospreads is the largest single cause of false imprisonment in the United States. Research programs have outlined experimentally proven techniques to reduce the dangers. Levi and Jungman have proposed a radical technique in which eyewitnesses choose several people from a large set of photos based on their similarity to the culprit. They argue that this will help solve many problems, including the tendency for courts to overbelieve eyewitnesses. Some problems and prospects for this new technique are discussed.

Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 4, 373-385 (1995)
DOI: 10.1177/0093854895022004002


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