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                            Funding & Awards
 Eyewitness Identification: A Systematic Investigation of Lineup Composition and Fairness
Award Information
Awardee
              TX A & M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE
Award #
              2018-R2-CX-0027
Funding Category
              Competitive Discretionary
Location
                    COMMERCE, TX
Congressional District
              4
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2018
Total funding (to date)
              $344,515
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY18 Research and Evaluation on the Administration of Justice
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2018, $344,515)
The proposed experiments will use novel methods for creating lineups of varying levels of fairness to determine the effect on the ability of eyewitnesses to separate guilty and innocent suspects. The proposed project is designed to address two program-specific goals: (a) how system variables (those that affect the accuracy of eyewitness identifications and over which the criminal justice system has, or can have, control) might best be accounted for to reduce the potential for misidentification, and (b) how different types of retrieval cues from the lineup composition during the investigation process influence the ability of eyewitnesses to recall aspects of the crime and make accurate identifications. The research team will manipulate the lineups in terms of their overall composition to determine whether those changes effect the confidence levels of eyewitness and their ability to make accurate eyewitness identifications. The primary theoretical goal of the study is to test whether eyewitnesses can better base their lineup decisions on diagnostic features of subjects included in lineups that distinguish guilty and innocent suspects. The applicant will conduct a series of randomized control trials to examine the impact of line-up compositions on eyewitness identification accuracy and Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis will be used to estimate empirical discriminability (i.e., correct and false identification rates). "Note: This project contains a research and/or development component, as defined in applicable law," and complies with Part 200 Uniform Requirements - 2 CFR  200.210(a)(14). CA/NCF



  
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                      A stronger memory for the perpetrator may attenuate effects of the identification procedure on eyewitness accuracy
                  The Sleepy Eyewitness: Self-Reported Sleep Predicts Eyewitness Memory
                  How potential jurors evaluate eyewitness confidence and decision time statements across identification procedures and for different eyewitness decisions
                  The effect of viewing distance on empirical discriminability and the confidence-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification
                  The number of fillers may not matter as long as they all match the description: The effect of simultaneous lineup size on eyewitness identification
                  One perpetrator, two perpetrators: The effect of multiple perpetrators on eyewitness identification
                  "All I remember is the black eye": A distinctive facial feature harms eyewitness identification
                  The effect of viewing distance on empirical discriminability and the confidence-accuracy relationship for eyewitness identification

  
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