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8 UC Irvine L. Rev. 41 (2018)
Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, Accuracy, and Eyewitness Identification

handle is hein.journals/ucirvlre8 and id is 45 raw text is: Legitimacy, Procedural Justice, Accuracy, and Eyewitness Identification Steven E. Clark* Molly B. Moreland** Rakel P. Larson*** Errors of eyewitness identfication have motivated a national movement in the United States to reform police procedures that are used to obtain eyewitness identgication evidence and legalprocedures that regulate the use of that evidence in legal proceedings. These reforms, and eyewitness procedures in general, have been evaluated primarily by the single metric of accurag-the accurag of the evidence and the accurag of legal outcomes based on that evidence. This focus on accurag contrasts with a large body of research that emphasies procedural justice and the legitimag of legal authorities and institutions. This Article develops a Legitimag Model for eyewitness identfication based on the effectiveness of police and legal institutions and the proceduraljustice inherent in the interactions between eyewitnesses and law enforcement. Section I describes the basic procedures for eyewitness identfication in real criminal investigations and experimental simulations; Sections II and III develop a framework for eyewitness * Steven E. Clark, Professor, Department of Psychology and Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies, University of California, Riverside. Preparation of this Paper was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation and the Presley Center for Crime andJustice Studies at UC Riverside. Professor Clark thanks the faculty in the Psychology Department at Emory University, where the first one hundred or so drafts of this Article were written. Professor Clark is especially grateful to Professor Scott Lilienfeld at Emory University. ** Molly B. Moreland, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Hood College, MD. *** Rakel P. Larson, Postdoctoral Scholar, Presley Center for Crime and justice Studies. 41

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