The Impact of Technology on the Criminal Justice System A Psychological Overview

Part 1: Advances in Detecting Deception, Interrogation, and Crime Scene Investigation
1. Do Automated and Virtual Interrogation and Deception Detection Systems Work?
Kirk Luther, Valerie Arenzon, Ashley Curtis, Hannah de Almeida, Joshua Hachey, and Jessica Lundy
2. The Emergence of Police Real-Time Crime Centers
Johnny Nhan
3. Facial Recognition Software for Lead Generation and Lineup Construction
Lauren E. Thompson
4. Advances and Future Prospects in Evolving Face Matching Technologies for Crime Prevention and Investigation
Tia Bennett, Harriet M. J. Smith, and Heather D. Flowe
5. Insanity Evaluations in the Age of Neuroimaging
Michael J. Vitacco and Savanna Coleman
6. A Decade of Evolution in the Forensic Investigative Field: A South African Overview
Bernadine Benson, Juanida Horne, and Gideon Jones
Part 2: Collecting and Evaluating Eyewitness Evidence from Lay Witnesses, Police Body Cameras, and Super-recognizers
7. Who are you looking at? Using eye tracking to understand eyewitness decision making
Jamal K. Mansour and Jonathan P. Vallano
8. Understanding Eyewitness Testimony with Virtual Reality
Markus Bindemann and Matthew C. Fysh
9. Facial Composite Technology and Eyewitness Identification
Graham Pike
10. Technological Advances in the Administration of Lineups
Tia Bennett, Madeleine P. Ingham, Melissa F. Colloff, Harriet M.J. Smith, and Heather D. Flowe
11. Using Body-Worn Camera Footage to Remember Use-of-Force Incidents
Craig Bennell, Simon Baldwin, Andrew Brown, and Ariane-Jade Khanizadeh
12. “Super-recognisers” and the Legal System
Emma Portch, Janice Attard-Johnson, Alejandro J. Estudillo, Natalie Mestry and Sarah Bate
Part 3: Technology in the Courtroom: Social Media, Citizen Crime Sleuths, Virtual Court, and Child Witnesses
13. Digitally-Networked Sleuthing: Online Platforms, Netizen Detectives, and
Bottom-up Investigations
James P. Walsh
14. The Virtual Court: Implications for Eyewitnesses and Beyond
Eryn J. Newman, Bethany Muir, and Nericia Brown
15. The Impact of Technology on Jurors’ Decisions
Emma Rempel and Tara Burke
16. The CSI Effect and its Impact on the Legal System, Policy, and Practice
Kimberley Schanz
17. Is Facial Recognition Software a Solution to the Negative Effects of Social Media on Eyewitness Testimony?
Heather M. Kleider-Offutt and Beth B. Stevens
18. Developmental Psychology and Law in the Digital Era: Emerging Trends,
Challenges, and Opportunities
I-An Su and Stephen J. Ceci

Biography

Emily Pica is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological Science and Counseling, Austin Peay State University, USA. Her current research interests involve investigating ways in which we can improve eyewitness identification accuracy, as it is one of the leading causes of wrongful convictions. Additionally, she examines which factors may be more (or less) influential in jurors’ decision making.

David Ross, is a UC Foundation Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He studies factors that impact the accuracy of eyewitness memory in children and adults. He has helped exonerate the wrongly imprisoned based on errors in eyewitness identification and works to prevent wrongful convictions by training law enforcement on collecting identification evidence according to research-based guidelines.

Joanna Pozzulo is Chancellor’s Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University, Canada, Director of the Mental Health and Well-Being Research and Training Hub (MeWeRTH), and director of the Laboratory for Child Forensic Psychology. The primary goal of her research is to understand how memory in the context of witnessing crime differs across the lifespan, focusing on the young eyewitness.