Workshop on Eyewitness Identification Evidence.

Strand Palace Hotel, 372 Strand, London, WC2R 0JJ.

Friday 30th January 2009

Funded by the Nuffield Foundation

Street identification

Tim Valentine (Goldsmiths, University of London) Laboratory studies of street identification

Josh Davis (Greenwich University) A field study of police use of street identification

A short briefing paper on the Nuffield Foundation funded project on "Street Identifcations and Their Role in the Criminal Justice System." (Includes data from the two presentations above.) Download here.

Identification from lineups

Amina Memon (University of Aberdeen) How best to inform evidence from vulnerable witnesses using video parades

Rachel Wilcock (South Bank University) Identification by older witnesses

Facial Composites

Stuart Gibson (University of Kent) Identification from facial composites

Practice, policy and legal aspects of eyewitness identification evidence

John Armstrong (Metropolitan Police) The challenges of video identification in the Metropolitan Police Service - theory vs. reality

Neil Curtis (Policing Powers and Protection Unit, Home Office) The PACE Review

Andrew Roberts (University of Warwick). 'Mandatory or discretionary? The decision to conduct identification procedures

Itiel Dror (University of Southampton) When science and the criminal justice system meet