Full Description
This comprehensive volume explores the impact of emerging technologies designed to fight crime and terrorism.
It first reviews the latest advances in detecting deception, interrogation, and crime scene investigation, before then transitioning to the role of technology in collecting and evaluating evidence from lay witnesses, police body cameras, and super-recognizers. Finally it explores the role of technology in the courtroom with a particular focus social media, citizen crime sleuths, virtual court, and child witnesses. It shines light on emerging issues, such as whether new norms have been created in the emergence of new technologies and how human behaviour has shifted in response. Based on a global range of contributions, this volume provides an overview of the technological explosion in the field of law enforcement and discusses its successes and failures in fighting crime.
It is valuable reading for advanced students in forensic or legal psychology and for practitioners, researchers, and scholars in law, criminal justice, and criminology.
Contents
Part 1: Advances in Detecting Deception, Interrogation, and Crime Scene Investigation 1. Do Automated and Virtual Interrogation and Deception Detection Systems Work? 2. The Emergence of Police Real-Time Crime Centers 3. Facial Recognition Software for Lead Generation and Lineup Construction 4. Advances and Future Prospects in Evolving Face Matching Technologies for Crime Prevention and Investigation 5. Insanity Evaluations in the Age of Neuroimaging 6. A Decade of Evolution in the Forensic Investigative Field: A South African Overview 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 8. Understanding Eyewitness Testimony with Virtual Reality 9. Facial Composite Technology and Eyewitness Identification 10. Technological Advances in the Administration of Lineups 11. Using Body-Worn Camera Footage to Remember Use-of-Force Incidents 12. "Super-recognisers" and the Legal System 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 14. The Virtual Court: Implications for Eyewitnesses and Beyond 15. The Impact of Technology on Jurors' Decisions 16. The CSI Effect and its Impact on the Legal System, Policy, and Practice 17. Is Facial Recognition Software a Solution to the Negative Effects of Social Media on Eyewitness Testimony? 18. Developmental Psychology and Law in the Digital Era: Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
