Interviewing victims and witnesses of crime.
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Interviewing witnesses and victims
Police investigators agree that eyewitnesses usually provide central leads in their investigations (Berresheim and Weber, 2003; George and Clifford, 1992; Kebbell and Milne, 1998). Police lament, however, that witnesses rarely provide sufficient information (Kebbell and Milne, 1998). How might police improve the quality and quantity of evidence elicited from eyewitnesses? Unfortunately, police ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
سال: 1995
ISSN: 1939-1528,1076-8971
DOI: 10.1037/1076-8971.1.4.732