Improving accuracy of EWT

Who looked into how to improve EWT

Fisher-looked at florida poilce and decided they need to improve on not:

giving witness a large number questions quickly

ordering the questions not in a way that represent the witness mental repersentaion

allowing witness talk about experience freely

Cognitive interview

Fisher and Gieselman

1-context reinstatement-mentally return to the scene of the crime-physical enviro and metnal state

2-report everything-say everything even if it seems irrelevant

3-recall from a different perspective-mentally recrate the crime from a different POV

4-recall in reverse order

Research

Fisher et al-compared 7 detective trained in cognitive interview and 9 trained in standard interview- found the detectives trained in CI recieved 63% more info

A03

-doesnt help in recognition of the suspect

-cannot be used on children as they cannot see the world from anyone elses POV

+cost benefit analysis-should be invested as it decreases crime