1.31 Investigating the emergence of expertise in forensic face matching over time
Academic team: Dr Reuben Moreton, Professor Graham Pike, Dr Ailsa Strathie, Dr Catriona Havard
Policing partners: Metropolitan Police Service
Status: Complete
Forensic face-matching examiners provide vital identification evidence in criminal investigations. Research has shown that examiners possess expertise in face-matching, but the expertise and how it develops is poorly understood.
This project aims to investigate potential benefits from face-matching processes used by expert examiners and approaches to collaborative decision making by multiple examiners to improve performance.
Outputs
| Title | Outputs type | Lead academic | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collaborative decision making and experience in forensic facial comparison | Poster | Moreton, R | 2022 |
| Expertise in forensic face matching | Presentation | Moreton, R | 2022 |
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Landmark Article in the British Journal of Social Psychology
Professor Clifford Stott (Centre for Policing Research and Learning) has published a Landmark Article in the British Journal of Social Psychology, one of the discipline’s leading international journals. The paper examines the historical relationship between social psychology, crowd theory, and the governance of public order.
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