Analysing Witness Testimony
A Guide for Legal Practitioners and Other Professionals
Published on 1. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
382 pages
978-1-85431-731-5 (ISBN)
Description
The consideration of witness testimony had traditionally been a task left to fact-finders with scant guidance from legal professionals. As a result, various practices have developed during the investigative and trial process which can obscure or even eradicate critical material. Miscarriages of justice will continue to occur, so long as those working within the justice system continue to accept witnesses and their testimony at face value. This book aims to make practitioners, as well as the fact-finders and those who guide them, aware of a wide range of perspectives on witness testimony. Each contributor identifies bad practice and puts forward ideas for improvement or removal of previously acceptable investigative and forensic methods.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85431-731-5 (9781854317315)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Human Memory in the Real World; Contamination of Witness Memory; The Influence of Drugs on Testimony; The Frailty of Children's Testimony; Testimony from Persons with Mental Disorders; Witness Testimony in Sleep and Dream-related Contexts; Physical Illness and their Potential Influence; Complaints of Sexual Misconduct; Full and Faithful: Ensuring Quality Practice and Integrity of Outcome in Witness Interviews; Obtaining Detailed Testimony: The Cognitive Interview; Hypnotically Induced Testimony; Identification Parades: Psychological and Practical Realities; Earwitness Testimony; Getting Heads Together: Police Collaborative Testimony; Recording Witness Statements; The Influence of Witness Appearance and Demeanour on Witness Credibility; Identifying Anomaly in Evidential Text; Admissibility of Expert Psychological and Psychiatric Testimony; Problematic Testimony.
This work aims to make practitioners, as well as fact-finders and those who guide them, aware of a wide range of perspectives on witness testimony. Each contributor identifies bad practice and puts forward ideas for improvement or removal of previously acceptable investigative and forensic methods.
This work aims to make practitioners, as well as fact-finders and those who guide them, aware of a wide range of perspectives on witness testimony. Each contributor identifies bad practice and puts forward ideas for improvement or removal of previously acceptable investigative and forensic methods.