TY - JOUR PY - 1995// TI - The police lineup basic weaknesses, radical solutions JO - Criminal justice and behavior A1 - Levi, A. M. A1 - Jungman, Noam SP - 347 EP - 372 VL - 22 IS - 4 N2 - Police lineups are an essential tool of justice but remain dangerous. Six problems still to be dealt with sufficiently are (a) the overbelief in lineup "identifications," (b) the all-or-none nature of the lineup, (c) similarity of the foils to the suspect, (d) similarity of innocent suspects to the offender, (e) failures to choose the offender, and (f) the small size of the lineup. This article discusses these problems and suggests a radical departure in procedure. The proposed method would have witnesses view more than a hundred foils, have them choose foils by their own judgment of similarity to the offender, and allow multiple choices from the lineup.
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LA - en SN - 0093-8548 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854895022004001 ID - ref1 ER -