AJ 012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eyewitness Identification, Moe Williams, Geographic Profiling
15 Jul 2020
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Quality of the underlying data set and its fit with the case under investigation (the sniper case: computer thought they lived in maryland, they actually were transients with no actual home) Uses statistical analyses which can actually be more accurate than intuitive. Equivocal death- where it is not clear why something happened? (a man drove off a cliff, it is not clear why the car fell from the cliff) Death can fall into four categories: natural, accidental, Psychological autopsy- effort to dissect and examine the psychological state of a person prior to their death (goal is to reconstruct the emotional state, personality, thoughts, and lifestyle. Tries to create inferences about the person"s intentions) Encoding- gathering info and putting it in a form that can be held in memory. Storage- holding the encoded info in the brain over time. Retrieval- accessing and pulling out the stored info at a later time.
